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Romans 7:9
For I was alive without the Law once; but when the commandment came, sin revived and I died.
For I was alive without the Law once; but when the commandment came, sin revived and I died.
Verse Romans 7:9. _I WAS ALIVE WITHOUT THE LAW ONCE_] Dr. Whitby paraphrases the verse thus:-"For the seed of Abraham _was alive_ _without the law once_, before the law was given, I being not obnoxio...
FOR I - There seems to be no doubt that the apostle here refers to his own past experience. Yet in this he speaks the sentiment of all who are unconverted, and who are depending on their own righteous...
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, ...
CAME. App-106. REVIVED. Greek. _anazao._ Here, Romans 14:9; Luke 15:24; Luke 15:32.Revelation 20:5....
_For I_ The "I" is emphatic. Through this section, as often elsewhere, Sin is quasi-personified, and distinguished from the Self which nevertheless it fatally infects. It is an alien thing, an invasio...
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...
ἘΓῺ ΔῈ ἜΖΩΝ Κ.Τ.Λ. ‘I was living unaffected by law once.’ He goes back to a pre-moral state—not necessarily in actual memory of a completely non-moral experience, but comparatively: his life as a chil...
ΈΖΩΝ _impf. ind. act. от_ ΖΆΩ (G2198) жить. Он не боялся наказания и не ощущал болезненного присутствия греха (Hodge), ΈΛΘΟΎΣΗΣ _aor. act. part. (temp.) от_ ΈΡΧΟΜΑΙ (G2064) приходить. _Gen. abs. Aor....
DISCOURSE: 1853 THE SPIRITUALITY OF THE LAW Romans 7:9. _I was alive without the law once: but when the commandment came, sin revived, and I died_. WHEN we behold the extreme supineness of those arou...
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...
For I was alive without the law once: but when the commandment came, sin revived, and I died. FOR I WAS ALIVE WITHOUT THE LAW ONCE, [ pote (G4218)] - 'at one time,' or 'formerly'-q.d., 'In the day...
__ 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...
I WAS ALIVE] 'I' emphatic 10, _Ordained_] RV omits....
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...
I WAS ALIVE. — The state of unconscious morality, uninstructed but as yet uncondemned, may, compared with that state of condemnation, be regarded as a state of “life.” REVIVED. — The English version...
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...
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...
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...
ἐγὼ δὲ ἔζων χωρὶς νόμου ποτέ : this is ideal biography. There is not really a period in life to which one can look back as the happy time when he had no conscience; the lost paradise in the infancy of...
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...
(5) For I was alive without the (q) law once: but when the commandment (r) came, sin revived, and I (s) died. (5) He sets himself before us as an example, in whom all men may behold, first what they a...
I lived some time without the law; i.e. without the knowledge of the law. This some understand St. Paul in the time of his childhood, before he came to the knowledge of what was forbidden by any law....
a. “ _And I was alive when I was formerly without law; but when the commandment came, sin revived, and I died;_ ” Calvin well expresses the rhythm of these verses: “The death of sin is the life of ma...
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...
9._For I was alive, etc. _He means to intimate that there had been a time when sin was dead to him or in him. But he is not to be understood as though he had been without law at any time, but this wor...
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...
FOR I WAS ALIVE WITHOUT THE LAW ONCE,.... The apostle says this, not in the person of Adam, as some have thought; who lived indeed, in a state of innocence, a perfectly holy and righteous life, but no...
For I was alive without the law once: but when the commandment came, sin revived, and I died. Ver. 9. _For I was alive_] As being without sense of sin, and conscience of duty. _ Sin revived_] _sc._...
_For I was alive_ In my own conceit; _without the law_ Without the proper knowledge of its spirituality, extent, and obligation. I apprehended myself to be righteous, and in the way to life eternal; _...
I WAS ALIVE; in my own estimation, and thought I was blameless as touching the law. Philippians 3:6. THE COMMANDMENT; that which extends to all the thoughts and desires of the soul, and requires them...
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....
AND. WAS ALIVE APART FROM THE LAW ONCE: BUT WHEN THE COMMANDMENT CAME, SIN REVIVED, AND. DIED; "I WAS ALIVE APART FROM THE LAW ONCE" -but if Calvinism is true (Total Hereditary Depravity, i.e. one is...
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...
FOR I WAS ALIVE WITHOUT THE LAW ONCE: q.d. Take me, if you please, for an instance. Before I knew the law aright, and understood the Divine and spiritual meaning of it, or whilst the law stood afar of...
And I was alive apart from the law once: but when the commandment came, sin revived, and I died;...
Origen Against Celsus Book III For wickedness must necessarily first exist in men. As Paul also says, "When the commandment came, sin revived, and I died."[192] Methodius From the Discourse on the R...
Romans 7:9 G1161 I G1473 alive G2198 (G5707) once G4218 without G5565 law G3551 but G1161 commandment...
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...
‘And I was alive apart from the law once, but when the commandment came, sin revived, and I died,' This was what had happened to Paul, while he was still Saul. He had been striving with all his might...
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...
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...
Romans 7:9. NOW I WAS ALIVE WITHOUT THE LAW ONCE. ‘For' is incorrect; this clause continues the description of the state without the law. ‘Alive' has been explained as meaning: (1.) I seemed to myself...
I WAS ALIVE (εζων). Imperfect active. Apparently, "the lost paradise in the infancy of men" (Denney), before the conscience awoke and moral responsibility came, "a seeming life" (Shedd).SIN REVIVED...
WHEN THE COMMANDMENT The passage (Romans 7:7) is autobiographical. Paul's religious experience was in three strongly marked phases: (1) He was a godly Jew under the law. That the passage does not re...
Romans 7:9 The Place of the Law in the Salvation of Sinners. We have here: I. A life which a man enjoys in and of himself before he knows God. "I was alive without the law once." This is the natural...
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...
I MYSELF WAS ONCE ALIVE. _Gifford_ says: "There is a deep tragic pathos in the brief and simple statement; it seems to point to some definite period full of painful recollections." This could be the 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...
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 7:7 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 2:19; Galatians 3:10; James 2:10; James 2:11; Luke 10:25;...
I was alive - once [ε ζ ω ν π ο τ ε]. Referring to the time of childlike innocence previous to the stimulus imparted to the inactive principle of sin by the coming of the law; when the moral self - de...
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...
And I was once alive without the law — Without the close application of it. I had much life, wisdom, virtue, strength: so I thought. But when the commandment — That is, the law, a part put for the who...
As if the apostle had said, "Formerly, when. lived. Pharisee, and had the law in my hand, but did not consider in my heart what exactness and perfection it required in my life,. contented myself with...