{"collection":"chr","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/chr/ecf/105/1050599.htm","path":"chr/ecf/105/1050599.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/chr/ecf/105/1050599.htm","text":"Chapter 34.\u2014How Concupiscence Made a Captive of the Apostle; What the Law of Sin Was to the Apostle.\nThen, indeed, this statement, \u201cI see another law in my members warring against the law of my mind,\u201d refers to that very concupiscence which we are now speaking of\u2014the law of sin in our sinful flesh. But when he said, \u201cAnd bringing me into captivity to the law of sin,\u201d that is, to its own self, \u201cwhich is in my members,\u201d he either meant \u201cbringing me into captivity,\u201d in the sense of endeavouring to make me captive, that is, urging me to approve and accomplish evil desire; or rather (and this opens no controversy), in the sense of leading me captive according to the flesh, and, if this is not possessed by the carnal concupiscence which he calls the law of sin, no unlawful desire\u2014such as our mind ought not to obey\u2014would,of course, be there to excite and disturb. The fact, however, that the apostle does not say, Bringing my flesh into captivity, but \u201cBringing me into captivity,\u201d leads us to look out for some other meaning for the phrase, and to understand the term \u201cbringing me into captivity\u201d as if he had said, endeavouring to make me captive. But why, after all, might he not say, \u201cBringing me into captivity,\u201d and at the same time mean us to understand his flesh? Was it not spoken by one concerning Jesus, when His flesh was not found in the sepulchre: \u201cThey have taken away my Lord, and I know not where they have laid Him\u201d? 2175 Was Mary\u2019s then an improper question, because she said, \u201cMy Lord,\u201d and not \u201cMy Lord\u2019s body\u201d or \u201cflesh\u201d?","title":"Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Vol. V: On Marriage and C...","type":"page"}