Clement of Alexandria Stromata Book IV yet "without the law sin was dead,"[9] Tertullian On Monogamy For when we were in the flesh, the passions of sin, which (passions) used to be efficiently caused through the law, (wrought) in our members unto the bearing of fruit to death; but now we have been emancipated from the law, being dead (to that) in which we used to be held,[95]