Raised in his own body; every thought captive to Christ’s obedience

…Lord Jesus, and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved.” Then how would he be said to have been raised from the dead — though by nature immortal as God — unless one first receives the accounts about the becoming-human, and is disposed that he made his own the body that is apt to die, and endured death in it in a human way, but came back to life in a divine way as incorruption and life?

“For the weapons of our campaign are not fleshly, but powerful with God for the tearing down of strongholds, tearing down reasonings and every height raised against the knowledge of God, and taking every thought captive into the obedience of Christ.” The saints’ war is not thick and bodily, but rather lean and mental. For they are accustomed to succeed not by moving fleshly weapons… but fitted with the weapons of the truth, rising up spiritually… against those who want to mis-mark it and twist the straightness of the divine doctrines… So the saints’ weapons are not fleshly, but rather powerful with God. For they tear down reasonings that carry us off into outlandish thoughts… and if someone should lift a horn high among those who habitually speak injustice against God, they all but strike him down with thoughts toward straightness, turning him to the right path and setting him into the words of the truth.