Anf-01 ix.vii.xiv Pg 17
2 Cor. iv. 10, etc.
And that the Spirit lays hold on the flesh, he says in the same Epistle, “That ye are the epistle of Christ, ministered by us, inscribed not with ink, but with the Spirit of the living God, not in tables of stone, but in the fleshly tables of the heart.”4556 4556
Anf-03 v.iv.vi.xi Pg 55
2 Cor. iv. 10.
For he gives prominence to the statement, “That the life also of Christ may be manifested in our body,”5732 5732
Anf-03 v.iv.vi.xi Pg 56
2 Cor. iv. 10.
as a contrast to the preceding, that His death is borne about in our body. Now of what life of Christ does he here speak? Of that which we are now living? Then how is it, that in the words which follow he exhorts us not to the things which are seen and are temporal, but to those which are not seen and are eternal5733 5733
Anf-03 v.viii.xliv Pg 5
2 Cor. iv. 10.
what sort of substance is that which, after (being called) the temple of God, can now be also designated the tomb of Christ? But why do we bear about in the body the dying of the Lord? In order, as he says, “that His life also may be manifested.”7575 7575
Anf-03 v.viii.xliv Pg 6
Ver. 10.
Where? “In the body.” In what body? “In our mortal body.”7576 7576
Anf-03 v.viii.xliv Pg 7
Ver. 10.
Therefore in the flesh, which is mortal indeed through sin, but living through grace—how great a grace you may see when the purpose is, “that the life of Christ may be manifested in it.” Is it then in a thing which is a stranger to salvation, in a substance which is perpetually dissolved, that the life of Christ will be manifested, which is eternal, continuous, incorruptible, and already the life of God? Else to what epoch belongs that life of the Lord which is to be manifested in our body? It surely is the life which He lived up to His passion, which was not only openly shown among the Jews, but has now been displayed even to all nations. Therefore that life is meant which “has broken the adamantine gates of death and the brazen bars of the lower world,”7577 7577
Anf-01 ix.vii.xiv Pg 25
2 Cor. iv. 11.
and all the other passages in which the apostle does manifestly and clearly declare the resurrection and incorruption of the flesh? And thus shall they be compelled to put a false interpretation upon passages such as these, they who do not choose to understand one correctly.
