For, if a man be only in name called holy, he is not holy; but he must be holy in everything: in his body and in his spirit. And those who are virgins rejoice at all times in becoming like God and His Christ, and are imitators of them. For in those that are such there is not the mind of the flesh. In those who are truly believers, and in whom the Spirit of Christ dwells — in them the mind of the fleshcannot be: which is fornication, uncleanness, wantonness; idolatry, sorcery; enmity, jealousy, rivalry, wrath, disputes, dissensions, ill-will;drunkenness, revelry; buffoonery, foolish talking, boisterous laughter; backbiting, insinuations; bitterness, rage; clamour, abuse, insolence of speech; malice, inventing of evil, falsehood; talkativeness, babbling; threatenings, gnashing of teeth, readiness to accuse, jarring,disdainings, blows; perversions of the right, laxness in judgment; haughtiness, arrogance, ostentation, pompousness, boasting of family, of beauty, of position, of wealth, of an arm of flesh; quarrelsomeness, injustice, eagerness for victory; hatred, anger, envy, perfidy, retaliation; debauchery, gluttony, overreaching (which is idolatry), the love of money (which is the root of all evils); love of display, vainglory, love of rule, assumption, pride (which is called death, and which God fights against). Every man with whom are these and such like things— every such man is of the flesh. For, he that is born of the flesh is flesh; and he that is of the earth speaks of the earth, and his thoughts are of the earth. And the mind of the flesh is enmity towards God. For it does not submit itself to the law of God; for it cannot do so, because it is in the flesh, in which dwells no good, because the Spirit of God is not in it. For this cause justly does the Scripture say regarding such a generation as this: My Spirit shall not dwell in men for ever, because they are flesh.
Whosoever, therefore, has not the Spirit of God in him, is none of His: as it is written,The Spirit of God departed from Saul, and an evil spirit troubled him, which was sent upon him from God.
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St. Clement of Rome ( - )
St. Clement was the bishop of Rome and third in succession from St. Peter. Around the year 95 AD, a letter was written by the Church of Rome to the Church at Corinth that is attributed to Saint Clement. This document is the earliest Christian writing besides the New Testament documents. In fact, the Gospel of John is likely written around the same time as this document. This "first letter of Clement" (a second letter was falsely attributed to him) was copied by the Corinthian Church and circulated all over the empire, rendering the very first papal "encyclical." It was so highly regarded by the universal church that for several centuries the Church in Egypt and elsewhere regarded it as one of the New Testatment scriptures.The Church of St. Clement is one of the most fascinating places in Rome. Excavations revealed that the medieval Church, built in the 12th century, actually was built on top of a 4th century Church which was in turn built over a house church going back to the first century. It is very possible that this was the house of St. Clement himself.