{"collection":"chr","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/chr/ecf/105/1050601.htm","path":"chr/ecf/105/1050601.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/chr/ecf/105/1050601.htm","text":"Chapter 36.\u2014Even Now While We Still Have Concupiscence We May Be Safe in Christ.\nBut the apostle pursues the subject, and says, \u201cSo then with the mind I myself serve the law of God, but with the flesh the law of sin;\u201d 2181 which must be thus understood: \u201cWith my mind I serve the law of God,\u201d by refusing my consent to the law of sin; \u201cwith my flesh, however,\u201d I serve \u201cthe law of sin,\u201d by having the desires of sin, from which I am not yet entirely freed, although I yield them no assent. Then let us observe carefully what he has said after all the above: \u201cThere is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus.\u201d 2182 Even now, says he, when the law in my members keeps up its warfare against the law of my mind, and retains in captivity somewhat in the body of this death, there is no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus. And listen why: \u201cFor the law of the spirit of life in Christ Jesus,\u201d says he, \u201chath made me free from the law of sin and death.\u201d 2183 How made me free, except by abolishing its sentence of guilt by the remission of all my sins; so that, though it still remains, only daily lessening more and more, it is nevertheless not imputed to me as sin?","title":"Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Vol. V: On Marriage and C...","type":"page"}