Pelagius, on Rom 8:7

“Because the wisdom of the flesh is an enemy to God; for it is not subject to the law of God, neither can it be.”

“The flesh is not in itself hostile to God, as the Manichaeans say, but the carnal mind is. For everything which is not subject is hostile, and anyone who wants to clear himself may sometimes go beyond the limit of the old law. Paul says that this carnal wisdom can never be subject to the law of God in order to call men back from the desires of the flesh.”

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