Origen Against Celsus Book III For wickedness must necessarily first exist in men. As Paul also says, "When the commandment came, sin revived, and I died."[192] Methodius From the Discourse on the Resurrection Let us see, then, what it is that we have endeavoured to say respecting the apostle. For this saying of his, "I was alive without the law once,"[60] " But I was alive and blameless before the law, having no commandment in accordance with which it was necessary to live; "but when the commandment came, sin revived, and I died. And the commandment, which was ordained to life, I found to be unto death."[64] The First Epistle of Clement Concerning Virginity "Whosoever, therefore, has not the Spirit of God in him, is none of His: "[79]