Romans 8:6 (WEB)
For the mind of the flesh is death, but the mind of the Spirit is life and peace;
Fathers and councils · 13
Irenaeus of Lyons
“We of the Church, they say, are these persons.” — editor's note: [That is, carnal; men of the carnal mind, psychic instead of pneumatic. Rom. viii. 6.]
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Augustine of Hippo
“…silent in Thy praises—neither the spirit of man, by the voice directed unto Thee, nor animal nor corporeal things, by the voice of those meditating thereon; so that our souls may from their weariness arise towards Thee, leaning on those things which Thou hast made, and passing on to Thee, who hast made them…” — editor's note: St. Paul speaks of a “minding of the flesh” and a “minding of the spirit” (Rom. viii. 6, margin), and we are prone to be attracted and held by the carnal…
Read the whole comment““But to be carnally minded is death:” for “the Lord liveth, and blessed be my God.” — editor's note: Rom. viii. 6.
Read the whole comment“Dead, I say, were they that did worship God that it might be well with them after the flesh: “For to be wise after the flesh is death:” and dead are they that do not worship God gratis, that is, because of Himself He is good, not because He giveth such and such good things, which He giveth even to men not good.” — editor's note: Rom. viii. 6.
Read the whole comment“…the spiritual and holy to be included, but the earthly and carnal, of whom it is said that they “mind earthly things,” and “to be carnally minded is death,” and whom the Lord calls simply flesh when He says, “My Spirit shall not always remain in these men, for they are flesh.”” — editor's note: Rom. viii. 6.
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John Chrysostom
“In which sense Paul also said, “The carnal mind is death; for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be.”” — editor's note: Rom. viii. 6, 7. [R.V., “For the mind of the flesh,” etc. The translator has not rendered γρ, which occurs in the Greek of the Homily, as in Rom. viii. 6.—R.]
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Tertullian
“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“Moreover, he has affirmed the “sense of the flesh” to be “death;” hence too, “enmity,” and enmity toward God; and that “they who are in the flesh,” that is, in the sense of the flesh, “cannot please God:” and, “If ye live according to flesh,” he says, “it will come to pass that ye die.”” — editor's note: Ver. 6.
Read the whole comment“In like manner, he called “the carnal mind” first “death,” and afterwards “enmity against God;” but he never predicated this of the flesh itself.” — editor's note: Rom. viii. 6.
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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Basil the Great
“And there is, as it were, a cleansing of the soul from the filth that has grown on it from the carnal mind, as it is written, “Thou shalt wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow.”” — editor's note: τὸ σαρκικὸν φρόνημα. cf. the φρόνημα τῆς σαρκός of Rom. viii. 6. cf. Article ix.
Read the whole comment“For the carnal man, who has never trained his mind to contemplation, but rather keeps it buried deep in lust of the flesh, as in mud, is powerless to look up to the spiritual light of the truth.” — editor's note: τῷ φρονήματι τῆς σαρκός. cf. Rom. viii. 6 τὸ γὰρ φρόνημα τῆς σαρκὸς θάνατος.
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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 · 13
Cited together in Against Heresies I.6.
Cited together in On the Holy Spirit Chapter 21.
Cited together in On Exhortation to Chastity Chapter 9.
Cited together in Confessions V.1.
Cited together in Confessions V.1.
Cited together in Against Heresies I.6.
Cited together in Against Heresies I.6.
Cited together in Against Heresies I.6.
Cited together in On the Holy Spirit Chapter 21.
Cited together in On the Holy Spirit Chapter 21.
Cited together in On the Holy Spirit Chapter 21.
Cited together in Against Heresies I.6.
Cited together in On the Holy Spirit Chapter 21.