George Haydock's Catholic Commentary
Romans 7:13
That it may appear sin, or that sin may appear; viz. to be the monster it is, which is even capable to take occasion from that which is good to work death. (Challoner)
That it may appear sin, or that sin may appear; viz. to be the monster it is, which is even capable to take occasion from that which is good to work death. (Challoner)
Verse Romans 7:13. _WAS THEN THAT WHICH IS GOOD MADE DEATH UNTO ME?_] This is the question of the _Jew_, with whom the apostle appears to be disputing. "Do you allow the law to be _good_, and yet say...
WAS THEN THAT WHICH IS GOOD ... - This is another objection which the apostle proceeds to answer. The objection is this, “Can it be possible that what is admitted to be good and pure, should be change...
CHAPTER 7 _ 1. The Law and its Dominion. (Romans 7:1 .)_ 2. Dead to the Law and Married to Another. (Romans 7:4 .) 3. Concerning the Law; its Activities and Purpose. (Romans 7:7 .) 4. The Experienc...
AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF THE MAN UNDER LAW. What it means to be in bondage to the old letter (6), the apostle will show from his own experience. That the following description belongs to Paul's legal past app...
THE NEW ALLEGIANCE (Romans 7:1-6)...
What then are we to infer? That the law is sin? God forbid! So far from that, I would never have known what sin meant except through the law. I would never have known desire if the law had not said, ...
WAS... MADE. Did, then, that which is good become. BUT. Nay! APPEAR. be seen to be. App-106. WORKING. working out. See Romans 1:27. IN. Dative case. No preposition. EXCEEDING. Greek. _kath_. (App...
_that which is good_ These words are emphatic in the Gr. He has said (Romans 7:10) that the commandment was found to be, in respect of him, "_unto_death." Here he rejects the thought that it _was deat...
ΤῸ�.Τ.Λ. Did that good thing, law, itself prove death to me? Ἡ ἉΜΑΡΤΊΑ. Sc. ἐγένετο ἐμοὶ θάνατος. ἽΝΑ Φ. The effect of sin found to be death proves sin to be what it is. ΔΙᾺ ΤΟΥ͂� = διὰ τοῦ νόμου....
Romans 7:7-25. The new life is effective to achieve righteousness in each man, as the law could not do. (7) Not that the law is itself sin, but it awakes the consciousness of sin, as, for instance, co...
ΈΓΈΝΕΤΟ _aor. ind. med. (dep.) от_ ΓΊΝΟΜΑΙ (G1096) становиться, ΓΈΝΟΙΤΟ _aor._ opt. _med. (dep.), см._ Romans 7:7. ΦΑΝΉ _aor. conj. pass. от_ ΦΑΊΝΩ (G5316) являться. _Conj._ с ΪΝ (G2443) выражает це...
WAS THEN THAT WHICH IS GOOD, &C.— This is an exact translation of the text, according to the order of the words in the Greek. It may be thus paraphrased: Jew.—"And yet you say, we were made subject to...
_TEXT_ Romans 7:13-25. Did then that which is good become death unto me? God forbid. But sin, that it might be shown to be sin, by working death to me through that which is good;that through the comma...
Was then that which is good made death unto me? God forbid. But sin, that it might appear sin, working death in me by that which is good; that sin by the commandment might become exceeding sinful....
__ Conciliation-Individual 13 From the supposition that the law being holy and just and good, involved him in death. it seems that what is good may become the cause of death. But such is not the cas...
7:13 working (l-22) Or 'working out.'...
BUT SIN] Understand 'became death unto me.' WORKING] RV 'by working.' 14-25. St. Paul, taking his own case as typical, shows that spiritual death (Romans 7:11) is due, not to the Law, nor to the free...
THE INADEQUACY OF THE LAW TO SAVE 1-6. St. Paul had spoken of the Law in a way which would offend an earnest Jew: cp. Romans 3:20; Romans 4:15; Romans 5:20. In this chapter ...
PAUL’S LETTER TO THE *ROMANS ROMANS _HILDA BRIGHT AND KEITH SIMONS_ CHAPTER 7 FREEDOM FROM LAW 7:1-25 1. AN EXAMPLE FROM *MARRIAGE 7:1-6 V1 Christian *brothers and *sisters, I am speaking to pe...
(11-13) The cause of this miscarriage lay not with the Law but with Sin. Sin played the tempter, and then made use of the Commandment to condemn and destroy its victims. All this time the Law (_i.e.,_...
WAS THEN THAT WHICH IS GOOD...? — Was it possible that the Law, holy and good as it was, could simply lead miserable men to death and ruin? No, it was not possible. It was not the Law that did this bu...
CHAPTER 16 THE FUNCTION OF THE LAW IN THE SPIRITUAL LIFE Romans 7:7 THE Apostle has led us a long way in his great argument; through sin, propitiation, faith, union, surrender, to that wonderful and...
CHAPTER 15 JUSTIFICATION AND HOLINESS: ILLUSTRATIONS FROM HUMAN LIFE Romans 6:14 - Romans 7:1 AT the point we have now reached, the Apostle's thought pauses for a moment, to resume. He has brought...
The description of the commandment as “good” raises the problem of Romans 7:7 in a new form. Can the good issue in evil? Did that which is good turn out to be death to me? This also is denied, or rath...
The actual working of the law. A very close connection between the law and sin is implied in all that has preceded: especially in Romans 6:14, and in such an expression as τὰ παθὴματα τῶν ἁμαρτιῶν τὰ...
THE LAW MAKES SIN KNOWN Romans 7:1 To make his meaning clear the Apostle now enters upon a parable drawn from domestic life. He says that we are married to the Law as our first husband, and seek, thr...
Continuing his argument, the apostle showed under the marital figure that a change of covenant changes the center of responsibility. Then we have one of the great personal and experimental passages of...
(7) Was then that which is good (u) made death unto me? God forbid. But sin, that it might (x) appear sin, working death in me by that which is good; that sin by the commandment might (y) become excee...
Here was the place strictly speaking for the _but_ (δέ), answering to the μέν, _assuredly_, of Romans 7:12. But Paul interrupts himself; he feels the need of yet again stating the problem in all its d...
“ _So that the law assuredly is holy, and the commandment holy, just, and good. Did then that which is good become death unto me? Let it not be so! But sin, that it might appear sin, wrought death in...
SECOND SECTION (7:7-25). POWERLESSNESS OF THE LAW TO SANCTIFY MAN. Sixteenth Passage (Vers. 7-25.) The essential ideas of this passage are the following: After having involved man in death (Romans 7...
This whole exposition is introduced by the objection which consists in identifying the law with sin. But it must not be thought that the apostle's aim is really to exonerate the law from such a suspic...
What shall we say then? Is the law sin? God forbid. Nay, I had not known sin, but by the law: for I had not known lust, except the law had said, Thou shalt not covet. (8) But sin, taking occasion by t...
_THE SINFULNESS OF SIN_ ‘That sin by the commandment might become exceeding sinful.’ Romans 7:13 In the Bible we have three things:— I. ‘SIN,’ THE VICIOUS PRINCIPLE IN THE BREAST. II. ‘TRANGRES...
13._Has then what is good_, _etc. _He had hitherto defended the law from calumnies, but in such a manner, that it still remained doubtful whether it was the cause of death; nay, the minds of men were...
We have considered the effect of the death and resurrection of Christ with reference to justification and to practical life. In the early part of the epistle (to Chapter 5:11) He has died for our sins...
WAS THEN THAT WHICH IS GOOD, MADE DEATH UNTO ME?.... An objection is started upon the last epithet in commendation of the law; and it is as if the objector should say, if the law is good, as you say,...
Was then that which is good made death unto me? God forbid. But sin, that it might appear sin, working death in me by that which is good; that sin by the commandment might become exceeding sinful. Ve...
Rom 7:13. "Was then that which is good made death unto me? God forbid. But sin, that it might appear sin, working death in me by that which is good; that sin by the commandment might become exceeding...
_Wherefore_ Since then, by what has been said, it appears that the law is not the cause of sin or death, except indirectly and by accident, it must be acquitted from this charge, and acknowledged to b...
THAT WHICH IS GOOD; the good law of God. MADE DEATH UNTO ME? Was it the law which caused his ruin? By no means. It was his own wicked violations of it. SIN; this was the cause of his ruin. WORKING D...
The practical effect of this teaching:...
WAS, THEN, THAT WHICH IS GOOD MADE DEATH UNTO ME? GOD FORBID! BUT SIN, THAT IT MIGHT APPEAR SIN, WORKING DEATH IN ME BY THAT WHICH IS GOOD, THAT SIN BY THE COMMANDMENT MIGHT BECOME EXCEEDING SINFUL....
CHANGE OF "HUSBANDS" BUT A STRUGGLE FOR FREEDOM In Romans 7:1 we are faced with the case of a renewed conscience recognizing the claims of righteousness - or more correctly, holiness - hating evil and...
13-15 THE INTERNAL STRUGGLE Verse 13 Good Death 14 Spiritual Carnal 15 Will Action 16 Consent Practice 17 Me Sin in me 18 Will Performance 19 Good Evil 21 Do good Evil present 22 Inner Outer 23 Mind...
DID THEN THAT WHICH IS GOOD BECOME DEATH UNTO ME? GOD FORBID. BUT SIN, THAT IT MIGHT BE SHOWN TO BE SIN, BY WORKING DEATH TO ME THROUGH THAT WHICH IS GOOD;--THAT THROUGH THE COMMANDMENT SIN MIGHT BECO...
7-13 There is no way of coming to that knowledge of sin, which is necessary to repentance, and therefore to peace and pardon, but by trying our hearts and lives by the law. In his own case the apostl...
WAS THEN THAT WHICH IS GOOD MADE DEATH UNTO ME? GOD FORBID: another anticipation. The apostle denies that the holy law was in its own nature deadly, or the cause of death to him; the fault was not in...
Did then that which is good become death unto me? God forbid. But sin, that it might be shown to be sin, by working death to me through that which is good;--that through the commandment sin might beco...
Tertullian Against Marcion Book V Why then do you, (O Marcion,) impute to the God of the law what His apostle dares not impute even to the law itself? Nay, he adds a climax: "The law is holy, and its...
Romans 7:13 then G3767 good G18 become G1096 (G5754) death G2288 me G1698 not G3361 G1096 ...
‘Did then that which is good become death to me? Certainly not! But sin, that it might be shown to be sin, by working death to me through what is good; that through the commandment sin might become ex...
PAUL'S INITIAL EXPERIENCE OF THE ‘SLAYING' POWER OF THE LAW (7:7-13). Having demonstrated that much of what sin does in chapter 6, the Law does in Romans 7:1 (see introduction to chapter 7 above), Pau...
Romans 7:13. DID THEN THAT WHICH IS GOOD, _i.e._, did the commandment itself, which was ‘good,' designed for beneficial results, BECOME DEATH UNTO ME. This the Apostle denies: The law itself was neith...
2. _The Law is holy_, _but cannot make Sinners holy_. The fact that Christians are freed from the law might suggest a wrong inference as to the character of the law. This Paul denies (Romans 7:7), but...
3. MORAL RESULTS OF JUSTIFICATION; THOSE JUSTIFIED BY FAITH LIVE A NEW LIFE IN THE SPIRIT. The gospel is the power of God unto salvation; through it the will is affected, and thus is accomplished _mo...
BECOME DEATH UNTO ME? (εμο εγενετο θανατοσ?). Ethical dative εμο again. New turn to the problem. Admitting the goodness of God's law, did it issue in death for me? Paul repels (μη γενοιτο) this sug...
SIN/SINFUL SIN (_ See Scofield) - (Romans 5:21). _...
Romans 7:13 I. What is sin? Rebellion the resistance of a human mind against the sovereignty of its Creator. It little matters, in comparison, what may be the act by which a rebel shows that he is a r...
Romans 7:7 A Chapter in Saul's Early Life. I. St. Paul repels with energy the idea that there can be anything essentially bad, unholy, or immoral about the blessed law of God itself. On the contrary,...
Romans 7:1. Know ye not, brethren, (for I speak to them that know the law), how that the law hath dominion over a man as long as he liveth? For the woman which hath an husband is bound by the law to h...
This is Paul's own account of his inward conflicts. He longed to conquer sin. He wanted to become a free man, and live always a godly and holy life, but he found that there was a battle within his nat...
CONTENTS: The conflict of the flesh with the spiritual nature. Impossibility of victory through the law. CHARACTERS: God, Christ, Paul. CONCLUSION: The function of the law is to detect and condemn si...
Romans 7:1. _I speak to them that know the law,_ with a view more fully to illustrate the liberation from the condemnation of the law, that the law has dominion over a man, and over a woman, as long a...
DOES THIS MEAN? Paul has shown us that the Law is holy, right, and good, even though it stirs up evil desires. It was through the Law that sin killed him. But is the Law then death??? BY NO MEANS! The...
_What shall we say then?_ Is the law sin? God forbid. THE LAW I. Its nature-- 1. Moral. 2. Spiritual. 3. Exemplified by the particular commandment quoted. II. Its use-- 1. To describe the natu...
_Was then that which is good made death to me?_ God forbid. THE LAW VINDICATED The text is explanatory of two statements apparently contradictory, viz., that the law is holy, etc., and that this la...
TO WHOM DOES THE PASSAGE REFER? _To the unregenerate.--_ It has been much discussed whether this section describes a justified man, or a man still unforgiven. The latter view was held by Origen and t...
ROMANS—NOTE ON ROMANS 7:13 Even if the law is not sin (vv. Romans 7:7), is the good law responsible for death? Paul argues that the fault lies with sin, not with the law. Through the law, sin is revea...
ROMANS—NOTE ON ROMANS 7:7 The claim that the Mosaic law produced sin and death raises the question, Is the law itself sinful? Paul explains that the law itself is good and that the fault lies with sin...
_CRITICAL NOTES_ Romans 7:7.—I had not known the specific character and peculiar nature of lust. The law of God proclaims to man _non concupisces_, and thus he learns that concupiscence is sin. The m...
EXPOSITION ROMANS 7:1 Here comes in the third illustration of the moral obligation of the baptized. It rests on the recognized principle that _death _cancels the claims of human law on a person (cf....
Romans chapter 7. Know ye not, brethren, (for I speak to them that know the law,) (Romans 7:1) In other words, I am talking now to the Jews, and how that the law has dominion over a man as long as h...
Galatians 3:21; James 1:13; Romans 8:3; Romans 5:20; Romans 7:8...
Exceeding [κ α θ υ π ε ρ β ο λ η ν]. An adverbial phrase. Lit., according to excess. The noun uJperbolh means a casting beyond. The English hyperbole is a transcription....
THE INWARD CONFLICT Romans 7:7 INTRODUCTORY WORDS The first part of the seventh of Romans presents the illustration of a woman with two husbands. It tells us that the woman which hath a husband, is...
Was then that which is good made the cause of evil to me; yea, of death, which is the greatest of evil? Not so. But it was sin, which was made death to me, inasmuch as it wrought death in me even by t...
From what the apostle had said in the former verse, he moves an objection unto this verse: "Seeing the law was holy, and just, and good, how comes it to be unto death? WAS THAT WHICH WAS GOOD MADE DEA...