George Leo Haydock

Christ... being put to death indeed in the flesh, dying on the cross for our sins, but brought to life by the spirit. [2] By the spirit here some understand Christ's divine spirit, and power of his divinity, by which he soon raised himself again from death to an immortal life by his glorious resurrection. But others by the spirit rather understand Christ's soul, by which he never died, which always remained united to his divine person, and which the third day he again reunited to his body. Wi.