“For to be carnally minded is death; but to be spiritually minded is life and peace.”
The mind governed by the flesh is death, but the mind governed by the Spirit is life and peace. — The τὸ φρόνημα τῆς σαρκός (to phronēma tēs sarkos, "the mind of the flesh") is θάνατος (thanatos, "death")—it leads to and embodies death; the τὸ φρόνημα τοῦ πνεύματος (to phronēma tou pneumatos, "the mind of the Spirit") is ζωὴ καὶ εἰρήνη (zōē kai eirēnē, "life and peace"). The Spirit's orientation is eschatological: eternal life (ζωή, zōē) and the peace (εἰρήνη, eirēnē) of reconciliation with God.
Church Fathers on Romans 8:6
“For to be carnally minded is death.” He does not speak of the nature of the flesh, or the essence of the body, but of being carnally “minded,” which may be set right again, and abolished. And in saying thus, he does not ascribe to the flesh any reasoning power of its own. Far from it. But to set forth the grosser motion of the mind, and giving this a name from the inferior part, and in the same way as he often is in the habit of calling man in his entireness, and viewed as…
Nicene & Post-Nicene / Ante-Nicene Fathers translations · public domain
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