the flesh is not a sphere which is to be differentiated from other earthly things and which is intrinsically bad or especially dangerous. It becomes bad only when man builds his life on it. Sexuality on the one side and Pharisaic religiosity on the other are particularly blatant examples of this false orientation of human life. But everything else human and earthly can also be flesh, d. Where man understands himself as flesh, this describes his subjection to that which would draw him away from God.283