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What the Fathers say
Eastern Fathers
Theophylact of Ohrid
"With the same mind" means: with the same impulse, with the same purpose. For the preposition κατά is missing, because it is stated with an omission. Having spoken of the economy of salvation, of the Lord's descent into Hades, and of the reason He descended there—namely, for the salvation of those held in Hades—the apostle finds in the death of the Lord another occasion for exhortation to virtue. …
Oecumenius
Since Christ suffered in the flesh for you, arm yourselves with the same thought: for he who has suffered in the flesh has ceased from sin, that he no longer should live the rest of his time in the flesh to the lusts of men, but to the will of God. The order is as follows: Therefore, since Christ has died in the flesh, you also should arrange yourselves according to the same thought: for you have died, namely, to the world: moreover, he who has died has ceased from sin, etc. …
Western Saints
Bede
Because he who has suffered in the flesh has ceased from sins, etc. Whoever among the saints has subjected his body to martyrdom under the violence of persecutors, there is no doubt that, as much as possible given human nature, he has abstained from sins until the end of his life. …
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