Origen, on Rom 6:23

“For the wages of sin is death. But the grace of God, life everlasting, in Christ Jesus our Lord.”

“Paul employs a military metaphor to good effect by saying that death is the wage due to those who fight under King Sin. But God does not give his soldiers a wage, as if they have something owing to them. Rather, he gives them the gift of grace, which is eternal life in Christ.The death being referred to here is not the death which separates the body from the soul but the death by which because of sin the soul is separated from God.”

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