{"collection":"chr","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/chr/ecf/105/1050265.htm","path":"chr/ecf/105/1050265.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/chr/ecf/105/1050265.htm","text":"Chapter 18 [XVII.]\u2014Who May Be Said to Be in the Flesh.\nThere is a passage which nobody could place against these texts with the similar purpose of showing the impossibility of not sinning: \u201cThe wisdom of the flesh is enmity against God; for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed p. 127 can be; so then they that are in the flesh cannot please God;\u201d 1171 for he here mentions the wisdom of the flesh, not the wisdom which cometh from above: moreover, it is manifest, that in this passage, by the phrase, \u201cbeing in the flesh,\u201d are signified, not those who have not yet quitted the body, but those who live according to the flesh. The question, however, we are discussing does not lie in this point. But what I want to hear from him, if I can, is about those who live according to the Spirit, and who on this account are not, in a certain sense, in the flesh, even while they still live here,\u2014whether they, by God\u2019s grace, live according to the Spirit, or are sufficient for themselves, natural capability having been bestowed on them when they were created, and their own proper will besides. Whereas the fulfilling of the law is nothing else than love; 1172 and God\u2019s love is shed abroad in our hearts, not by our own selves, but by the Holy Ghost which is given to us. 1173","title":"Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Vol. V: A Treatise on Nat...","type":"page"}