. — Ed.
Rom
. viii. 3. Mr. C. afterwards expressed himself to the same effect:
"Christ's body, as mere body, or rather carcase (for body is an associated word), was no more capable of sin or righteousness than mine or yours; that his humanity had a capacity of sin, follows from its own essence. He was of like passions as we, and was tempted. How could he be tempted, if he had no formal capacity of being seduced?"
Table Talk
, 2d edit. p. 261. — Ed.