Matthew Poole and continuators on Romans 8:12

12 Therefore brethren, we are debtors, not to the flesh, to live after the flesh .

This illative particle sends us to the things before delivered. q. d. Seeing we are not in the Flesh, but have the Spirit of God dwelling in us; not only sanctifying and enlivening our souls for the present, but raising and quickening our bodies for time to come, therefore we are not Debtors, &c.

i. e. We are not Debtors to Sin, or the corrupt and sinful nature that is in us. We owe it no service, there is nothing due to it from Believers, but blows, and the blew eye that the Apostle gave it. The Antithesis is omitted, but it is necessarily implyed and understood; and that is, That we are debters to the Spirit, to live and walk after it.