Wednesday, November 2, 2022

Marius Victorinus on Galatians 2:20 and his being "made spirit"

  

But it is no longer I who am living, but Christ lives in me. This means I have already been made spirit: I understand all things spiritually by understanding the commands of God spiritually. Previously I showed myself to be totally oriented around the flesh, and I was obeying its desires or trying ton control them, understanding nothing spiritually. So now I am living spiritually, and Christ lives in me. (Stephen Andrew Cooper, Marius Victorinus' Commentary on Galatians [Oxford Early Christian Studies; New York: Oxford University Press, 2005], 284)

 

Vivo autem iam non egot sed vivit ei me Christus: id est iam spiritus factus sum, spiritaliter cuncta intellego spiritaliter intellegendo mandata dei. Ante totum circa carnem me exhibebam et eius desideriis vel serviebam vel imperabam, nihil spiritaliter intellegens. Nunc ergo ipse spiritaliter vivo, vivit in me Christus. (Marii Victorini Opera, Pars II: Opera Exegetica [Corpus Scriptorum Ecclesiasticorum Latinorum Editum Consilio Et Impensis Academiae Scientiarum Austricae LXXXIII, Pars 2; Vindobonae: Hoelder-Pichler-Tempsky, 1986], 124)