(12) And if Christ [be] in you, the (n) body [is] dead because of sin; but the Spirit [is] life because of righteousness.
(12) He confirms the faithful against the relics of flesh and sin, granting that these things are yet (as appears by the corruption which is in them) having effects on one of their parts (which he calls the body, that is to say, a lump) which is not yet purged from this earthly filthiness in death: but in addition not wanting to doubt at all of the happy success of this combat, because even this little spark of the Spirit (that is, of the grace of regeneration), which is evidently in them as appears by the fruits of righteousness, is the seed of life.
(n) The flesh, or all that which as yet remains fast in the grips of sin and death.