Only here, Rom 4:19; Heb 11:12. Mortify is used in its literal sense of put to death. So Erasmus: “Christ was mortified and killed.” And Shakespeare:
“ - his wildness mortified in him,
Seemed to die too.”
“1 Henry V., 1, 26”
Members (μέλη)
See on Rom 6:13. The physical members, so far as they are employed in the service of sin. The word falls in with the allusions to bodily austerities in ch. 2.
Which are upon the earth
Compare Col 3:2. The organs of the earthly and sensuous life.
Fornication, etc.
In apposition with members, denoting the modes in which the members sinfully exert themselves.