{"collection":"chr","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/chr/ecf/211/2110651.htm","path":"chr/ecf/211/2110651.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/chr/ecf/211/2110651.htm","text":"That the word flesh is not used with one single meaning only.\nWe find that the word flesh is used in holy Scripture with many different meanings: for sometimes it stands for the whole man, i.e., for that which consists of body and soul, as here \u201cAnd the Word was made flesh,\u201d 1295 and \u201cAll flesh shall see the salvation of our God.\u201d 1296 Sometimes it stands for sinful and carnal men, as here \u201cMy spirit shall not remain in those men, because they are flesh.\u201d 1297 Sometimes it is used for sins themselves, as here: \u201cBut ye are not in the flesh but in the spirit,\u201d 1298 and again \u201cFlesh and blood shall not inherit the kingdom of God:\u201d lastly there follows, \u201cNeither shall corruption inherit incorruption.\u201d 1299 Sometimes it stands for consanguinity and relationship, as here: \u201cBehold we are thy bone and thy flesh,\u201d 1300 and the Apostle says: \u201cIf by any means I may provoke to emulation them who are my flesh, and save some of them.\u201d 1301 We must therefore inquire in which of these four meanings we ought to take the word flesh in this place, for it is clear that it cannot possibly stand as in the passage where it is said \u201cThe Word was made flesh,\u201d and \u201cAll flesh shall see the salvation of God.\u201d Neither can it have the same meaning as where it is said \u201cMy Spirit shall not remain in those men because they are flesh,\u201d because the word flesh is not used here as it is there where it stands simply for a sinful man\u2014when he says\u201d The flesh lusteth against the spirit and the spirit against the flesh.\u201d 1302 Nor is he speaking of things material, but of realities which in one and the same man struggle either at the same time or separately, with the shifting and changing of time.\nS. John i. 14.\n333:1296\nS. Luke iii. 6.\n333:1297 333:1298 333:1299 333:1300 333:1301 333:1302","title":"Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Ser. II, Vol. XI: The Works of John Cassian.: Chapter X. That the word flesh is not used with one single meaning only.","type":"page"}