“Even if the heretics who are opposed to the Creator suppose that in the next sentence Paul was speaking against him when he says, "I know that in me, that is in my flesh, there dwells no good thing," yet let them read what precedes and follows this. For before it he says, "But sin which dwells in me," which explains w…”
Clement of Alexandria, 3th c. — The Stromata Book 3
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23But I see another law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of sin which is in my members.
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21I find then a law, that, when I would do good, evil is present with me.
22For I delight in the law of God after the inward man:
— Romans 7:23 —
24O wretched man that I am! who shall deliver me from the body of this death?
25I thank God through Jesus Christ our Lord. So then with the mind I myself serve the law of God; but with the flesh the law of sin.