{"collection":"chr","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/chr/ecf/105/1050819.htm","path":"chr/ecf/105/1050819.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/chr/ecf/105/1050819.htm","text":"Chapter 20.\u2014In Me, that Is, in My Flesh.\nAnd he declares both more plainly in what follows: \u201cFor I delight in the law of God after the inward man; but I see another law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of sin which is in my members.\u201d 2579 But in that he said, \u201cbringing me into captivity,\u201d he can feel emotion without consenting to it. Whence, because of those three things, two, to wit, of which we have already argued, in that he says, \u201cBut I am carnal,\u201d and \u201cSold under sin,\u201d and this third, \u201cBringing me into captivity in the law of sin, which is in my members,\u201d the apostle seems to be describing a man who is still living under the law, and is not yet under grace. But as I have expounded the former two sayings in respect of the still corruptible flesh, so also this latter may be understood as if he had said, \u201cbringing me into captivity,\u201d in the flesh, not in the mind; in emotion, not in consent; and therefore \u201cbringing me into captivity,\u201d because even in the flesh there is not an alien nature, but our own. As, therefore, he himself expounded what he had said, \u201cFor I know that in me, that is, in my flesh, dwelleth no good thing,\u201d so also now out of the exposition of that we ought to learn the meaning of this passage, as if he had said, \u201cBringing me into captivity,\u201d that is, \u201cmy flesh,\u201d \u201cto the law of sin, which is in my members.\u201d","title":"Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Vol. V: A Treatise Agains...","type":"page"}