Romans 7:18 (WEB)
For I know that in me, that is, in my flesh, dwells no good thing. For desire is present with me, but I don’t find it doing that which is good.
Fathers and councils · 18
Irenaeus of Lyons
“…saved by their own instrumentality; and, therefore, when Paul sets forth human infirmity, he says: “For I know that there dwelleth in my flesh no good thing,” showing that the “good thing” of our salvation is not from us, but from God.” — editor's note: Rom. vii. 18.
Read the whole comment“…promised to go, at once assuring his father, but he did not go (for “every man is a liar;” “to will is present with him, but he finds not means to perform”),—[this parable, I say], points out one and the same Father.” — editor's note: Rom. vii. 18.
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Jerome
“Rom. vii. 18.” — the author cites it
Read the whole comment“For in my flesh there dwelleth no good thing.”” — editor's note: Rom. vii. 18.
Read the whole comment“For the good that I would, I do not: but the evil which I would not, that I do;” and once more: “they that are in the flesh cannot please God.” — editor's note: Rom. vii. 24, 18, 19.
Read the whole comment“Now if I do that I would not, it is no more I that do it, but sin that dwelleth in me.”” — editor's note: Rom. vii. 14–20.
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John Cassian
- John Cassian, Conferences XI–XVII XIII.9Conference XIII
“…of what is good unless it is guided by the Lord, the Apostle bears witness and says: “For to will is present with me, but to perform what is good I find not.”” — editor's note: Rom. vii. 18.
Read the whole comment - John Cassian, Conferences XVIII–XXIV XXIII.1Conference XXIII
“…after the inner man, but I see another law in my members opposing the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of sin which is in my members;” these passages on the contrary plainly show that they cannot possibly fit the person of sinners, but that what is said can only apply to those that are…” — editor's note: Rom. vii. 18, sq.
Read the whole comment - John Cassian, Conferences XVIII–XXIV XXIII.13Conference XXIII
“…are often even against our will troubled by natural desires, which we would rather know nothing about; we know that in our flesh there dwelleth no good thing viz., the perpetual and lasting peace of this meditation of which we have spoken; but there is brought about in our case that miserable and wretched divorce,…” — editor's note: Cf. Rom. vii. 18.
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Augustine of Hippo
“For to will lieth near to me, but to accomplish good I find not.”” — editor's note: Rom. vii. 18
Read the whole comment“Let us hear the Apostle; “I know,” saith he, “that there dwelleth not in me, that is, in my flesh, any good.”” — editor's note: Rom. vii. 18
Read the whole comment“The one forsooth he shows, where he says, “To will is present with me, but to perfect good is not;” the other, where he says, “Walk in the Spirit, and perfect not the lusts of the flesh.”” — editor's note: Rom. vii. 18
Read the whole comment“As ye read, “The flesh lusteth against the spirit,” and, “There dwelleth not in my flesh any good;” so read ye, “No one ever hated his own flesh, but nourisheth and cherisheth it, as also Christ the Church.”” — editor's note: Rom. vii. 18
Read the whole comment“But we are to pray for this, that the will of God may be done as in heaven so in earth; that in like manner as with the heart we delight in the law after the inward man, so also, when the change in our body has taken place, no part of us may, on account of earthly griefs or pleasures, stand opposed to this our delight.” — editor's note: Rom. vii. 18, 22.
Read the whole comment““To will,” he says, “is present with me; but not so, how to perfect that which is good.”” — editor's note: Rom. vii. 18.
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Tertullian
“For even if he has affirmed that “good dwelleth not in his flesh,” yet (he means) according to “the law of the letter,” in which he “was:” but according to “the law of the Spirit,” to which he annexes us, he frees us from the “infirmity of the flesh.”” — editor's note: See Rom. vii. 18.
Read the whole comment“…been rash enough, if not even impudent, in me to have dared compose a treatise on Patience, for practising which I am all unfit, being a man of no goodness; whereas it were becoming that such as have addressed themselves to the demonstration and commendation of some particular thing, should themselves first be…” — editor's note: “Nullius boni;” compare Rom. vii. 18.
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Clement of Alexandria
“Quod si ii, qui sunt diversæ sententiæ, repugnantes, existiment Paulum verba sua dirigentem adversus Creatorem, dixisse ea, quæ deinceps sequuntur: “Novi enim, quod non habitat in me, hoc est, in came mea, bonum;” legant æ, quæ prius dicta sunt; et ea, quæ consequuntur.” — editor's note: Rom. vii. 18.
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Cross-references · 13
Cited together in On Continence Chapter 19.
Cited together in On Continence Chapter 6 and 1 other place.
Cited together in On Continence Chapter 20.
Cited together in On Continence Chapter 22.
Cited together in On Continence Chapter 22.
Cited together in On Continence Chapter 22.
Cited together in On Continence Chapter 22.
Cited together in On Continence Chapter 22.
Cited together in On Continence Chapter 19 and 1 other place.
Cited together in Conferences XVIII–XXIV XXIII.1.
Cited together in On the Sermon on the Mount II.6.
Cited together in On the Sermon on the Mount II.6.
Cited together in On the Sermon on the Mount II.6.