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Verse Romans 7:24. _O WRETCHED MAN THAT I AM_, c.] This affecting
account is finished more impressively by the _groans_ of the _wounded_
captive. Having long maintained a useless conflict against inn...
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O WRETCHED MAN THAT I AM! - The feeling implied by this lamentation is
the result of this painful conflict; and this frequent subjection to
sinful propensities. The effect of this conflict is,
(1) To...
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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...
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THE NEW ALLEGIANCE (Romans 7:1-6)...
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We are aware that the law is spiritual; but I am a creature of flesh
and blood under the power of sin. I cannot understand what I do. What
I want to do, that I do not do; but what I hate, that I do. I...
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O. Omit. This exclamation is an instance of Figure of speech
_Ecphonesis._ App-6.
WRETCHED. Greek. _talaiporos._ Only here and Revelation 3:17. Compare
_talaiporia,_ misery, Romans 3:16; James 5:1. an...
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E. THE STATE DESCRIBED IN Ch. Romans 7:14-24
The controversy over this profound passage is far too wide to allow
of full treatment here. It is scarcely needful to say that conclusions
very different...
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_O wretched man_, &c. Lit. MISERABLE MAN [AM] I. The adjective
indicates a state of _suffering;_the _pain_of the inner conflict as
felt by the regenerate "mind [38]."
[38] In Lord Selborne's _Book of...
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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...
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ἘΚ ΤΟΥ͂ Σ. Τ. Θ. Τ. The man has become all but wholly
involved in his body which sin has made captive to death. Τ. Θ. Τ.
this moral death.
Just as in Romans 7:9 S. Paul’s been self-analysis carries hi...
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24, 25. A parenthetic exclamation, a cry for help, and the answer....
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ΤΑΛΑΊΠΩΡΟΣ (G5005) несчастный, бедный,
терзаемый, печальный. Это выражение
отчаяния и осуждения, может также
описывать состояние человека,
разрывавмого между двумя
возможностями (TLNT; Dunn; CCFJ, 4:1...
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DISCOURSE: 1855
PAUL’S SPIRITUAL CONFLICTS
Romans 7:24. _O wretched man that I am! who shall deliver me from the
body of this death? I thank God through Jesus Christ our Lord_.
THE Epistle to the Rom...
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WHO SHALL DELIVER ME? &C.— It has been thought by some, that in this
phrase there is an allusion to a cruelty, which is said to have been
practised by some tyrants, on miserable captives who fell into...
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_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...
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O wretched man that I am! who shall deliver me from the body of this
death?
O WRETCHED MAN THAT I AM! WHO SHALL DELIVER ME FROM THE BODY OF THIS
DEATH? The apostle speaks of the "body" here with re...
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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...
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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 ...
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THE BODY OF THIS DEATH] Sin and death go together. The body which is
under the power of sin is also given over to death....
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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...
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So this intestine struggle goes on unceasingly and reaches no
decision, till at last the unhappy man cries out, almost in despair,
“Who shall deliver me from the body of this death?” Who, that is,
wil...
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(14-25) Further and detailed proof why it was that though the Law
appealed to all that was best in man, still he could not obey it....
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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...
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The last section of the chapter confirms the argument in which Paul
has vindicated the law, by exhibiting the power of sin in the flesh.
It is this which makes the law Weak, and defeats its good inten...
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ταλαίπωρος ἐγὼ ἄνθρωπος · τίς με
ῥύσεται; “a wail of anguish and a cry for help”. The words
are not those of the Apostle's heart as he writes; they are the words
which he knows are wrung from the hear...
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THE CONFLICT WITHIN
Romans 7:14
The Apostle gives a further statement of his personal experience of
the inability of the soul to realize the divine ideal which has been
revealed to it as the norm and...
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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...
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(14) O (d) wretched man that I am! who shall deliver me from the body
of this death?
(14) It is a miserable thing to be yet in part subject to sin, which
of its own nature makes us guilty of death: b...
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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...
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It is from this Romans 7:14 especially that the difference between the
two explanations of the passage comes out: that which applies it to
the state of man regenerate, and that which regards it as dep...
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THIRD CYCLE: ROMANS 7:21-25.
This cycle, while repeating the same experiences, stamps them as the
abiding and definitive _result_ of the state of things described
throughout the whole passage (ἄρα, _c...
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“ _O wretched man that I am! who shall deliver me from the body of
this death? I thank God through Jesus Christ our Lord! So then with
the mind I myself serve the law of God; but with the flesh the la...
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For we know that the law is spiritual: but I am carnal, sold under
sin. (15) For that which I do I allow not: for what I would, that do I
not; but what I hate, that do I. (16) If then I do that which...
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_RESTORATION OF FALLEN HUMANITY_
‘I see another law in my members, warring against the law of my
mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of sin which is in my
members. O wretched man that I a...
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24._Miserable_, _etc. _He closes his argument with a vehement
exclamation, by which he teaches us that we are not only to struggle
with our flesh, but also with continual groaning to bewail within
our...
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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...
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O WRETCHED MAN THAT I AM,.... Not as considered in Christ, for as such
he was a most happy man, being blessed with all spiritual blessings,
and secure from all condemnation and wrath; nor with respect...
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O wretched man that I am! who shall deliver me from the body of this
death?
Ver. 24. _O wretched man_] We must discontentedly be contented to be
exercised with sin while we are here. It is so bred in...
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_But I see another law_ Another commanding, constraining power of evil
inclinations and fleshly appetites, whose influence is so strong and
constant, that it may be fitly called another law; _in my me...
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WRETCHED MAN; on account of remaining proneness to sin.
WHO SHALL DELIVER ME; not the law, not my own efforts, or my
abhorrence of myself on account of disobedience-not any expedients
which ever have...
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The difficulty of the struggle and the plea for deliverance:...
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O WRETCHED MAN THAT I AM! WHO SHALL DELIVER ME FROM THE BODY OF THIS
DEATH?...
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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...
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THE BODY OF THIS DEATH:
Or, this body of death...
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Romans 7:24 Wretched man that. am! who shall deliver me out of the
body of this death? "Wretched man" -5005. talaiporos
tal-ah'-ee-po-ros; from the base of 5007 and. derivative of the base
of 3984;...
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23-25 This passage does not represent the apostle as one that walked
after the flesh, but as one that had it greatly at heart, not to walk
so. And if there are those who abuse this passage, as they a...
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Wretched man that I am! who shall deliver me out of the body of this
death?...
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Irenaeus Against Heresies Book III
showing that the "good thing" of our salvation is not from us, but
from God. And again: "Wretched man that I am, who shall deliver me
from the body of this death? ...
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Romans 7:24 wretched G5005 man G444 am G1473 Who G5101 deliver G4506
(G5695) me G3165 from G1537 this...
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DELIVERANCE IS AT HAND (7:24-8:2).
‘Wretched man that I am! Who will deliver me out of the body of this
death?'
The thought that he has not wholly and continually been able to
overcome sin caused Pau...
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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...
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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...
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Romans 7:24. O WRETCHED MAN THAT I AM! Some would inclose this verse
and the first clause of Romans 7:25 in parenthesis; but this is
unnecessary. The word ‘wretched' implies ‘exhausted by hard
labor;'...
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O WRETCHED MAN THAT I AM
(ταλαιπωρος εγω ανθρωπος). "Wretched man I." Old
adjective from τλαω, to bear, and πωρος, a callus. In N.T.
only here and Revelation 3:17. "A heart-rending cry from the dep...
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FROM THE BODY
Or, out of this body of death. (Romans 8:11); (1 Corinthians 15:51);
(1 Corinthians 15:52); ...
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Romans 7:24
I. The consciousness of sin is so far a universal fact of human
nature, that if any one of us is without it, it is because of some
disease and defect in his own mind. The conviction of sin...
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Romans 7:22
I. When a man begins to hunger and thirst after righteousness, and,
discontented with himself, attempts to improve himself, he soon begins
to find a painful truth in many a word of the Bib...
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Romans 7:14
Dualism in the Life.
I. This is the earliest place in this Epistle where the two terms
"flesh and spirit" occur in clear contrast, with the peculiar ethical
sense conferred upon them by o...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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WHAT AN UNHAPPY MAN I AM! This is the despair of natural man, held
prisoner by sin, and unable to help himself. [The Christian also feels
this constant struggle, but has hope in Christ.] WHO WILL RESC...
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_O wretched man that I am! who shall deliver me from the body of this
death?_
SOUL DESPOTISM
I. The soul’s oppressive despot. “The body of this death.” What
is meant by this? Corrupt animalism. What...
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_I find then a law, that, when I would do good, evil is present with
me._
THE INWARD CONFLICT
There is no word with which we are more familiar than “conflict.”
We see strife everywhere; amongst the e...
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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...
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ROMANS—NOTE ON ROMANS 7:24 WHO WILL DELIVER ME? The living presence
of JESUS CHRIST is the answer to the problem of sin....
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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...
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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...
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_CRITICAL NOTES_
Romans 7:14.—Rabbins: “The law, because of its spirituality, will
dwell only in the soul that is free from dross.”
Romans 7:15.—I am blinded, I am hurried along and tripped up, I kno...
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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....
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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...
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1 Kings 8:38; 2 Corinthians 1:8; 2 Corinthians 12:7; 2 Timothy 4:18;...
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Wretched [τ α λ α ι π ω ρ ο ς]. Originally, wretched through
the exhaustion of hard labor.
Who [τ ι ς]. Referring to a personal deliverer.
Body of this death [τ ο υ σ ω μ α τ ο ς τ ο υ θ α ν α
τ ο υ...
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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...
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Wretched man that I am — The struggle is now come to the height; and
the man, finding there is no help in himself, begins almost unawares
to pray, Who shall deliver me? He then seeks and looks for
del...
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These words are. sad and sorrowful complaint of the present and too
great prevalency of indwelliung sin and unsubdued corruption; and in
them observe,
1. The person complaining, St. Paul.
2. The mat...