21. Let us listen to that chosen vessel and
teacher of the Gentiles, when he had already commended the faith of the
people of Rome because of their understanding of the truth. For
wishing to teach the unity of nature in the case of the Father and the
Son, he speaks thus, But ye are not in the flesh but in the Spirit,
if indeed the Spirit of God is in you. But if any have not the
Spirit of Christ, he is none of His. But if Christ is in you, the
body indeed is dead through sin, but the Spirit is life through
righteousness. But if the Spirit of Him Who raised up Christ from
the dead dwelleth in you; He Who raised up Christ from the dead shall
also quicken your mortal bodies, because of His Spirit Who dwelleth in
you Rom. viii. 9–11.. We are all spiritual if the Spirit
of God dwells in us. But this Spirit of God is also the Spirit of
Christ, and though the Spirit of Christ is in us, yet His Spirit is
also in us Who raised Christ from the dead, and He Who raised Christ
from the dead shall quicken our mortal bodies also on account of His
Spirit that dwelleth in us. We are quickened therefore on account
of the Spirit of Christ that dwelleth in us, through Him Who raised
Christ from the dead. And since the Spirit of Him Who raised
Christ from the dead dwells in us, and yet the Spirit of Christ is in
us, nevertheless the Spirit Which is in us cannot but be the Spirit of
God. Separate, then, O
heretic, the Spirit of Christ from the Spirit of God, and the Spirit of
Christ raised from the dead from the Spirit of God Which raises Christ
from the dead; when the Spirit of Christ that dwelleth in us is the
Spirit of God, and when the Spirit of Christ Who was raised from the
dead is yet the Spirit of God Who raises Christ from the dead.