Philoxenus of Mabbug, on Col 2:20

“If then you be dead with Christ from the elements of this world, why do you yet decree as though living in the world?”

“And again he said, "If ye died with Christ from the elements of the world, why, as if ye were living in the world, do ye receive the commandments?" Now a man arriveth at this rule of life after he hath stripped himself of his possessions, and beginneth to work good deeds in the members of his person, for so long as he hath riches, he justifieth himself by riches, and he emptieth not himself from the cares of riches which he serveth in himself.”

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