Two Wisdoms

Nam prudentia carnis, mors est: prudentia autem spiritus, vita et pax: quoniam sapientia carnis inimica est Deo: legi enim Dei non est subjecta, nec enim potest. Ostendit quid dixerit inimica, ne quis putaret ex adverso aliud venire principium, subjungit et dicit, Legi enim Dei non est subjecta, nec enim potest. Ergo facere contra legem, hoc est inimicum esse in Deum, non quia Deo aliquid nocere potest, sed sibi potest nocere, quisquis resistit voluntati Dei, hoc est enim calcem mittere adversus stimulum. Sic est dictum: Legi enim Dei non est subjecta, neque enim potest. Tanquam si diceretur, nix non calefacit, sed resolvi potest et fervere ut calefaciat, sed cum hoc facit, jam nix non est. Sic et prudentia carnalis, cum anima pro magnis bonis temporalia bona desiderare coeperit contemnere, et spiritualia desiderare, desinit esse carnis prudentia, et spiritui non resistit. Ea namque anima cum inferiora appetit, prudentiam carnis habere dicitur; cum superiora, prudentiam spiritus, non quia prudentia carnis substantia est, qua induitur anima vel exuitur, sed ipsius animae affectatio est, quae omnino desinit cum se totam ad superna convertit. Sedulius Scotus, Collectanea in omnes B. Pauli epistolas, In Epistolam ad Romanos, Caput VIII Source: Migne PL 103.71-d

For the wisdom of the flesh is death, but the wisdom of the spirit is life and peace. Because the wisdom of the flesh is an enemy of God, for it is not subject to the law of God, nor can it be. 1 He shows why he says 'enemy,' and lest someone think there is some other source for opposition, he adds to it and says, 'For it is not subject to the law of God, nor can it be.' Therefore to act against the law is to be an enemy of God, not because something can harm God but because one is able to harm oneself, that is, whoever resists the will of God kicks about the pricks. 2 So it was said, 'It is not subject to the law of God, nor can it be.' As if he said, snow cannot give off warmth, but it is possible to dissolve it by heating so that it does give off warmth, but when this is done it is no longer snow. So it is with the wisdom of the flesh, that when the soul begins to desire greater goods and condemns temporal goods and desires spiritual things, the wisdom of the flesh ceases, and there is no resistance to the spirit. For when the soul desires inferior things, then it is said to have the wisdom of the flesh, and when it desires higher things the wisdom of the spirit, not because the wisdom of the flesh is something that the soul puts on or puts off, but it is the state of the soul, which ceases entirely when it turns to heavenly things. Sedulius Scotus, Commentary On The Letters of Saint Paul, On the Letter to the Romans, Chapter 8 1 Rom 8.6-7 2 Acts 26.14