Romans 7:6

Jerome

• Jerome, Against Jovinianus Book 1

  “Hence the Apostles also were said to be filled with new wine; with new, he says, not with old wine; because new wine is put into fresh wine-skins, and they did not walk in oldness of the letter, but in newness of the Spirit.” — editor's note: Rom. vii. 6.

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• Jerome, Letters Letter 69

  “Wherefore the song also which we sing is a new song, and putting off the old man we walk not in the oldness of the letter but in the newness of the spirit.” — editor's note: Rom. vii. 6.

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Tertullian

• Tertullian, On Monogamy Chapter 13

  “…(wrought) in our members unto the bearing of fruit to death; but now we have been emancipated from the law, being dead (to that) in which we used to be held, unto the serving of God in newness of spirit, and not in oldness of letter.”” — editor's note: Comp. the marginal reading in the Eng. ver., Rom. vii. 6.

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• Tertullian, The Five Books Against Marcion V.12Book V

  “Now, whatever may be the substance, since he mentions “the body of Christ,” whom he immediately after states to have been “raised from the dead,” none other body can be understood than that of the flesh, in respect of which the law was called (the law) of death.” — editor's note: Compare the first part of ver. 4 with vers. 5 and 6 and viii. 2, 3.

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Clement of Alexandria

• Clement of Alexandria, The Stromata, or Miscellanies IV.3Book IV

  “For if “by the law is the knowledge of sin,” as those allege who disparage the law, and “till the law sin was in the world;” yet “without the law sin was dead,” we oppose them.” — editor's note: Rom. vii. 6.

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Augustine of Hippo

• Augustine of Hippo, Tractates on the Gospel of John Tractate 27

  “But the apostle says, and says what is true, “To be carnally-minded is death.”” — editor's note: Rom. vii. 6.

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• Augustine of Hippo, Tractates on the Gospel of John Tractate 112

  “What, then, is signified by the ear that was cut off in the Lord’s behalf, and healed by the Lord, but the renewed hearing that has been pruned of its oldness, that it may henceforth be in the newness of the spirit, and not in the oldness of the letter?” — editor's note: Rom. vii. 6.

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• Romans 8:9

  Cited together in Tractates on the Gospel of John Tractate 27.

• 1 Corinthians 4:7

  Cited together in Tractates on the Gospel of John Tractate 27.

• 1 Corinthians 8:1

  Cited together in Tractates on the Gospel of John Tractate 27.

• Ephesians 1:23

  Cited together in On Monogamy Chapter 13.

• 1 Timothy 5:14

  Cited together in On Monogamy Chapter 13.

• 1 Timothy 5:15

  Cited together in Tractates on the Gospel of John Tractate 27.

• Psalm 85:12

  Cited together in Tractates on the Gospel of John Tractate 27.

• Psalm 116:16

  Cited together in Tractates on the Gospel of John Tractate 112.

• Isaiah 7:9

  Cited together in Tractates on the Gospel of John Tractate 27.

• Matthew 16:23

  Cited together in Tractates on the Gospel of John Tractate 27.

• Mark 10:10

  Cited together in Tractates on the Gospel of John Tractate 27.

• Luke 22:51

  Cited together in Tractates on the Gospel of John Tractate 112.

• John 3:13

  Cited together in Tractates on the Gospel of John Tractate 27.

• Acts 1:26

  Cited together in Tractates on the Gospel of John Tractate 27.

• Romans 5:5

  Cited together in Tractates on the Gospel of John Tractate 27.