vers. 10 and 11, by the necessity of an exhortation, and afterwards returns from another point to the eschatological expression.” We are debtors, not to the flesh [ὀφειλέται ἐσμὲν οὐ τῇ σαρκἰ. The negative applies to the succeeding clause as well. The antithesis is obvious. Σάρξ has the article here, where it is personified, but not in the next clause, where it corresponds with the use made of it in vers. 4 and 5.—R.] According to Meyer, the Apostle has suppressed his antithesis in consequence