{"collection":"chr","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/chr/ecf/105/1050822.htm","path":"chr/ecf/105/1050822.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/chr/ecf/105/1050822.htm","text":"Chapter 23 [XI.]\u2014What It is to Be Delivered from the Body of This Death.\nFor when he says also, \u201cWho shall deliver me from the body of this death?\u201d 2583 who can deny that when the apostle said this he was still in the body of this death? And certainly the wicked are not delivered from this, to whom the same bodies are returned for eternal torment. Therefore, to be delivered from the body of this death is to be healed of all the weakness of fleshly lust, and to receive the body, not for penalty, but for glory. With this passage also those words are sufficiently in harmony: \u201cOurselves also, which have the first-fruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for the adoption, the redemption, of our body.\u201d For surely we groan with that groaning wherein we say, \u201cO wretched man that I am! who shall deliver me from the body of this death?\u201d That also where he says, \u201cFor what I do, I know not;\u201d what else is it than: \u201cI will not, I do not approve, I do not consent, I do not do\u201d? Otherwise it is conp. 385 trary to what he said above, \u201cBy the law is the knowledge of sin,\u201d and, \u201cI had not known sin but by the law,\u201d and, \u201cSin, that it might appear sin, worked death in me by that which is good.\u201d For how did he know sin, of which he was ignorant, by the law? How does sin which is not known appear? Therefore it is said, \u201cI know not,\u201d for \u201cI do not,\u201d because I myself commit it with no consent of mine; in the same way in which the Lord will say to the wicked, \u201cI know you not,\u201d 2584 although, beyond a doubt, nothing can be hid from Him; and as it is said, \u201cHim who had not known sin,\u201d 2585 which means who had not done sin, for He had not known what He condemned.","title":"Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Vol. V: A Treatise Agains...","type":"page"}