Second, in both passages the self exists in relationship to “the flesh [sarx]” or “my flesh,” albeit also in quite different ways: in Galatians 2:20 Paul simultaneously lives “in the [realm of the] flesh” and “in the [realm of the] faith”; in Romans 7:18 the speaker says, “I know that nothing good dwells in me, that is, in my flesh.” In Galatians, “flesh” thus appears to denote a realm of existence; in Romans, it seems to denote the speaker’s bodily, singular self. Clearly, “flesh” is a complex word