Thomas Aquinas, on Rom 8:8

“And they who are in the flesh, cannot please God.”

“Then when he says, "and they who are in the flesh," he applies what he had said about prudence of the flesh to men whom the prudence of the flesh rules, saying: "they who are in the flesh," i.e., who follow the desires of the flesh by the prudence of the flesh, so long as they are this way "cannot please God," because: "the Lord takes pleasure in those who fear him" (Ps 147:11). Hence those who do not submit to him cannot please him, so long as they remain such. But they can cease to be in the flesh according to the manner described and then they will be pleasing to God.”

Imported from an open dataset — not yet checked against the printed edition.