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Romans 7:8
But sin, taking occasion by the commandment, wrought in me all manner of concupiscence. For without the Law sin was dead.
But sin, taking occasion by the commandment, wrought in me all manner of concupiscence. For without the Law sin was dead.
Verse Romans 7:8. _SIN, TAKING OCCASION BY THE COMMANDMENT_] I think the pointing, both in this and in the 11th verse, to be wrong: the comma should be after _occasion_, and not after _commandment. B...
BUT SIN - To illustrate the effect of the Law on the mind, the apostle in this verse depicts its influence in exciting to evil desires and purposes. Perhaps no where has he evinced more consummate kno...
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, ...
OCCASIONS OPPORTUNITY. Greek. _aphorme_. Here, Rom 7:11. 2 Corinthians 5:12; 2 Corinthians 11:12.Galatians 1:5; Galat
_But_ This word refers to the statement "I had not known lust;" and this verse explains the action of the law in causing (indirectly) the knowledge of sin. _sin_ As a principle, "working" evil desire...
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...
ἈΦΟΡΜῊΝ … ΛΑΒΟΥ͂ΣΑ, ‘having got a handle.’ ἈΦΟΡΜῊ = a starting point, base of operations, opportunity. Ἡ ἉΜΑΡΤΊΑ throughout the passage is treated as a concrete force or power. It is remarkable that...
ΑΦΟΡΜΉ (G874) случай, предлог, возможность. Букв., начальная точка отсчета или основание для отправки экспедиции, затем обычно ресурсы, необходимые для проведения мероприятия (BAGD; GELTS, 74; TDNT)....
SIN, TAKING OCCASION, &C.— _Taking advantage._ This is the proper signification of the Greek word 'Αφορμη. Observe, that in this and the three following verses, the Apostle comments upon, or at least...
TEXT Romans 7:7-12. What shall we say then? Is the law sin? God forbid. Howbeit, I had not known sin, except through the law: for I had not known coveting, except the law had said, Thou shalt not cove...
But sin, taking occasion by the commandment, wrought in me all manner of concupiscence. For without the law sin was dead. BUT SIN (I:E., MY INDWELLING CORRUPTION), TAKING OCCASION BY THE COMMANDMEN...
__ Conciliation-Individual 12 A realization of our death to sin and life in Christ will give us power to cope with sin, always remembering that sin cannot bring us into disfavor because of the super...
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 ...
TAKING OCCASION] RV 'finding occasion.' BY THE COMMANDMENT, etc.] RV 'wrought in me through the commandment all manner of coveting.' WITHOUT] RV 'apart from.'...
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...
TAKING OCCASION. — The word in the Greek implies originally a military metaphor: taking as a “base of operations,” _i.e.,_ an advanced post occupied as the starting-point and rendezvous for further ad...
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...
ἀφορμὴν λαβοῦσα means “having received,” not “having taken” occasion. ἡ ἁμαρτία is sin as a power dwelling in man, of the presence of which he is as yet unaware. How it “receives occasion” is not stat...
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...
But sin, taking occasion by the commandment, wrought in me all manner of concupiscence. For without the law sin [was] (p) dead. (p) Though sin is in us, yet it is not known as sin, neither does it ra...
Sin, taking occasion. Sin, or concupiscence, which is called sin, because it is from sin, and leads to sin, which was asleep before, was awakened by the prohibition; the law not being the cause thereo...
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...
“ _Then sin, taking occasion, wrought in me by the commandment all manner of concupiscence; for without the law sin is dead._ ” After revealing to him the presence of sin, the law itself intensified i...
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...
8._For without the law, etc. _He expresses most clearly the meaning of his former words; for it is the same as though he had said, that the knowledge of sin without the law is buried. It is a general...
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...
BUT SIN TAKING OCCASION BY THE COMMANDMENT,.... By "the commandment" is meant, either the whole moral law, or that particular commandment, "thou shalt not covet", Exodus 20:17, which, the Jews say, co...
But sin, taking occasion by the commandment, wrought in me all manner of concupiscence. For without the law sin _was_ dead. Ver. 8. _By the commandment_] Not commandments. Papists abolishing, or at l...
_What shall we say then?_ This, to the beginning of the next chapter, is a kind of digression, wherein the apostle, in order to show, in the most lively manner, the weakness and inefficacy of the law,...
SIN; his sinful inclination led him to resist the commandment, and the more to indulge evil desires in opposition to its requirements. Resistance to its restraints increased his wickedness, and showed...
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...
7-12 IS THE LAW GOOD OR BAD? Is it a blessing or a curse? What did the law do? 1. Pointed out sinful behavior 7 2. Made us aware of sin in our lives 8 3. Makes us aware of the death penalty 9 4....
BUT SIN, FINDING OCCASION, WROUGHT IN ME THROUGH THE COMMANDMENT ALL MANNER OF COVETING: FOR APART FROM THE LAW SIN IS DEAD. "FINDING OCCASION" -'taking opportunity' (NASV), 'a starting-point,. base o...
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...
BUT SIN; i.e. the corruption of our nature, the depraved bent and bias of the soul, called before _lust._ TAKING OCCASSION BY THE COMMANDMENT; i.e. being stirred up or drawn forth by the prohibition o...
but sin, finding occasion, wrought in me through the commandment all manner of coveting: for apart from law sin is dead. [Those following the apostle through the last section would be apt to have conf...
Tertullian Against Marcion Book V It was not the law, therefore, which led me astray, but "sin, taking occasion by the commandment."[643] Methodius From the Discourse on the Resurrection For when t...
Romans 7:8 But G1161 sin G266 taking G2983 (G5631) opportunity G874 by G1223 commandment G1785 produced G2716 ...
‘But sin, finding occasion, wrought in me through the commandment all manner of coveting.' And from that time of illumination onwards he had found himself coveting more and more, because the principle...
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...
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...
Romans 7:8. BUT SIN. This approaches a personification of sin, as in chap. Romans 5:12-21. The excitement resulting from the pressure of the law is now described. TAKING OCCASION. This should be sepa...
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...
FINDING OCCASION (αφορμην λαβουσα). See 2 Corinthians 5:12; 2 Corinthians 11:12; Galatians 5:13 for αφορμην, a starting place from which to rush into acts of sin, excuses for doing what they want...
SIN SIN (_ See Scofield) - (Romans 5:21). _...
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,...
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...
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...
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...
SIN FOUND ITS CHANCE. Sin was given its chance by the commandment which had the effect of awakening and stirring up evil desires. God's word of command to Adam and Eve called their attention to the fo...
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...
_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...
ROMANS—NOTE ON ROMANS 7:8 The prohibition against coveting increased the desire for what was forbidden. Without such prohibitions, SIN LIES DEAD—it is still present, but not in a powerful way....
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...
1 Corinthians 15:56; James 1:14; James 1:15; John 15:22; John 15:24;...
Sin. Personified. Occasion [α φ ο ρ μ η ν]. Emphatic, expressing the relation of the law to sin. The law is not sin, but sin found occasion in the law. Used only by Paul. See 2 Corinthians 5:12; Galat...
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...
But sin — My inbred corruption. Taking occasion by the commandment — Forbidding, but not subduing it, was only fretted, and wrought in me so much the more all manner of evil desire. For while I was wi...
Observe here,. concession or grant made by the apostle, that although the law was not the formal cause of sin, yet sin was an accidental event of the law, through the depravity and corruption of our n...