Crucified with Christ
Every one of these can say with St. Paul: I am crucified with Christ. Nevertheless I live. Yet not I, but Christ lives in me (Galatians 2:20): words that manifestly describe a deliverance from inward as well as from outward sin. This is expressed both negatively, I live not: my evil nature, the body of sin, is destroyed; and positively, Christ lives in me, and therefore all that is holy and just and good. Indeed both these, Christ lives in me, and I live not, are inseparably connected. For what communion has light with darkness, or Christ with Belial (2 Corinthians 6:14-15)?
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25. Every one of these can say with St. Paul, I am crucified with Christ. Nevertheless I live. Yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: words that manifestly describe a deliverance from inward, as well as from outward sin. This is expressed both negatively, I live not: my evil nature, the body of sin is destroyed: and positively, Christ liveth in me, and therefore all that is holy, and just, and good. Indeed both these, Christ liveth in me, and I live not, are inseparably connected. For what communion hath light with darkness, or Christ with Belial?