“And if Christ be in you, the body is dead because of sin; but the Spirit is life because of righteousness.”
But if Christ is in you, then even though your body is subject to death because of sin, your spirit is alive because of righteousness. — The δικαιοσύνη (dikaiosynē, "righteousness") given in justification makes the spirit (πνεῦμα, pneuma, "spirit") ζῆν (zēn, "alive") even as the σῶμα (soma, "body") is νεκρὸν (nekron, "dead") with respect to sin's liability. This is the already-not yet: the believer's spirit is alive eschatologically; the body awaits resurrection. Death's power over the body is interrupted by the Spirit's life.
Church Fathers on Romans 8:10
“And if Christ be in you.” Again, what is good he applies to them, and the distressing part was short and parenthetic. And that which is an object of desire, is on either side of it, and put at length too, so as to throw the other into shade. Now this he says, not as affirming that the Spirit is Christ, far from it, but to show that he who has the Spirit not only is called Christ's, but even has Christ Himself. For it cannot but be that where the Spirit is, there Christ is…
Nicene & Post-Nicene / Ante-Nicene Fathers translations · public domain
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