s derived from Adam. As when God says, in Gen.
vi.: "My Spirit shall not always strive with men, for they also are
flesh;" and Isaiah, chap. xl., "All flesh shall see the Salvation of
God,"--that is, it shall be revealed for all men. So we also make
confession in our own form of faith, "I believe in the resurrection
of the flesh," that is, that men shall rise again. So man uniformly
throughout is called flesh, as he lives here in this state of being.

The marks of the flesh are carefully recounted, one after another, in
Paul's Epistle to the Galatians v., not only the gross carnal works,
as lasciviousness, but also the highest and most reckless
blasphemies, as idolatry and heresy, which belong not only to the
flesh, but to the reason. We must understand, therefore, that man,
with his intellectual nature,--and with respect both to that which is
inward and that which is outward--that is, the body and spirit,--has
the appellation of flesh; and this, because with all his faculties,
internal and external, he seeks only that which is carnal, and can
serve to gratify the flesh. St. Peter says here, too, that Christ
suffered in the _flesh_, while it is certain that His suffering
extended further than to the body merely, for His soul suffered the
greatest anguish, as is said by the prophet Isaiah.

In the same way, also, you are to understand that which follows, in
the passage before us: "_Whoever hath suffered in the flesh hath
ceased from sin._" For this implies not only such things as the death
and the torture of the body, but whatever can work misery to
man--whatever he endures through calamity and necessity. For there
are many people who are sound in body, and yet inwardly experience
much heart-sorrow and anguish. If it comes upon us for Christ's sake,
it is serviceable and profitable. For whoever suffers in the flesh
(says he) ceases from sin, and therefore the Holy Cross is
profitable, that sin may thereby be subdued; since it requires you to
mortify lust, envy and hate, and other wickedness. Therefore God has
imposed the Holy Cross upon us that He might urge and constrain us to
believe, and extend the hand of kindness one to the other. Hereupon
it follows:

V. 2. _That he henceforth, in the time that still remains for him in
the flesh, should live not according to the lusts of men, but the
will of God._

We should henceforth, as long as we live, hold the flesh captive
through the Cross, and by mortifications, so