Romans 8:5 (WEB)
For those who live according to the flesh set their minds on the things of the flesh, but those who live according to the Spirit, the things of the Spirit.
Fathers and councils · 7
Tertullian
“Now although the flesh is sinful, and we are forbidden to walk in accordance with it, and its works are condemned as lusting against the spirit, and men on its account are censured as carnal, yet the flesh has not such ignominy on its own account.” — editor's note: Rom. viii. 5.
Read the whole comment“For so, too, does the apostle say, that “to savour according to the flesh is death, but to savour according to the spirit is life eternal in Jesus Christ our Lord.”” — editor's note: See Rom. viii. 5, 6, esp. in Vulg.
Read the whole comment“For they who walk according to flesh are sensible as to those things which are the flesh’s, and they who (walk) according to (the) Spirit those which (are) the Spirit’s.”” — editor's note: Rom. viii. 3–5.
Read the whole comment“…to our aid; for, while explaining in what sense he would not have us “live in the flesh,” although in the flesh—even by not living in the works of the flesh—he shows that when he wrote the words, “Flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God,” it was not with the view of condemning the substance (of the…” — editor's note: See Rom. viii. 5–13.
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Jerome
“And more clearly in what follows he teaches that Christians do not walk according to the flesh but according to the Spirit: “For they that are after the flesh do mind the things of the flesh; but they that are after the spirit the things of the spirit.” — editor's note: Rom. viii. 5 sq.
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Aphrahat
“And again he said:—They that are spiritual are spiritually minded, and they that are carnal are carnally minded.” — editor's note: Rom. viii. 5.
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Clement of Alexandria
“…subjungit dicens: “Non enim accepistis spiritum servitutis rursus in timorein, sed accepistis spiritum adoptionis filiorum, in quo clamamus, Abba Pater;” hoc est, ad hoc accepimus, ut cognoscamus eum, quem oramus, qui est vere Pater, qui rerum omnium solus est Pater, qui ad salutem erudit et castigat at pater,…” — editor's note: Rom. viii. 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 12, 13, 14, 15.
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Cross-references · 14
Cited together with
Cited together in On Exhortation to Chastity Chapter 9.
Cited together in A Treatise on the Soul Chapter 40.
Cited together in A Treatise on the Soul Chapter 40.
Cited together in On Exhortation to Chastity Chapter 9.
Cited together in On Exhortation to Chastity Chapter 9.
Cited together in On Exhortation to Chastity Chapter 9.
Cited together in On Exhortation to Chastity Chapter 9.
Cited together in On Exhortation to Chastity Chapter 9.
Cited together in On Exhortation to Chastity Chapter 9.
Cited together in On Exhortation to Chastity Chapter 9.
Cited together in A Treatise on the Soul Chapter 40.
Cited together in On Exhortation to Chastity Chapter 9.
Cited together in A Treatise on the Soul Chapter 40.
Quotes
Romans 8:5 takes up the words of 2 Maccabees 11:25 (8 words in common).
