Anf-01 ix.vii.xi Pg 9
Rev. ii. 17.
showing that he has become changed for the better, being now not [mere] flesh and blood, but a spiritual man, and is called such. <index subject1="Man" subject2="unfruitful, without the Holy Spirit" title="536" id="ix.vii.xi-p9.2"/><index subject1="Works of the flesh" title="536" id="ix.vii.xi-p9.3"/>Then, again, as the wild olive, if it be not grafted in, remains useless to its lord because of its woody quality, and is cut down as a tree bearing no fruit, and cast into the fire; so also man, if he does not receive through faith the engrafting of the Spirit, remains in his old condition, and being [mere] flesh and blood, he cannot inherit the kingdom of God. Rightly therefore does the apostle declare, “Flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God;”4519 4519
Anf-03 vi.ii.viii Pg 4
Cod. Sin. has, “the law is Christ Jesus,” corrected to the above.