John Trapp Complete Commentary
Romans 7:12
Wherefore the law is holy, and the commandment holy, and just, and good.
Ver. 12. The commandment] Vis legis in mandando et praecipiendo. The word (εντολη) properly signifieth an affirmative precept.
Wherefore the law is holy, and the commandment holy, and just, and good.
Ver. 12. The commandment] Vis legis in mandando et praecipiendo. The word (εντολη) properly signifieth an affirmative precept.
Verse Romans 7:12. _WHEREFORE THE LAW_ IS _HOLY_] As if he had said, to soothe his countrymen, to whom he had been showing the absolute insufficiency of the law either to justify or save from sin: I...
WHEREFORE - So that. The conclusion to which we come is, that the Law is not to be blamed, though these are its effects under existing circumstances. The source of all this is not the Law, but the cor...
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...
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, ...
THE NEW ALLEGIANCE (Romans 7:1-6)...
THE LAW. the law indeed (Greek. _men._ Omitted by Authorized Version and Revised Version.) JUST. righteous. App-191....
_Wherefore_, &c. This is not a direct inference from the preceding passage. The holiness of the Law is rather assumed as an axiom than proved. But the _fault of Sin_has been so brought out as to leave...
Ὁ ΜῈΝ Κ.Τ.Λ. The antithesis is not expressed; an interruption is caused by the occurrence of one more false conclusion which has to be removed. Then the line of thought is resumed in Romans 7:14. ΔΙΚ...
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...
ΜΈΝ (G3303) несомненно. Этим он заранее защищает неприкосновенность закона (Godet)....
WHEREFORE THE LAW IS HOLY— In Romans 7:7 the Apostle laid down this position, _"that the law was not sin."_ In Romans 7:8 he proves it, by shewing that the law was very strict in forbidding of sin, so...
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...
Wherefore the law is holy, and the commandment holy, and just, and good. WHEREFORE, [ "hooste (G5620 ), 'SO THAT,' 'THUS, THEN,'] THE LAW IS HOLY, AND THE COMMANDMENT - that one in particular, so o...
__ 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 ...
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...
WHEREFORE. — This word introduces a conclusion, not from the verse immediately preceding, but from the whole of the last five verses. The Apostle glances back for a moment over the course of his argum...
(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.,_...
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 conclusion is that the law is holy (this is the answer to the question with which the discussion started in Romans 7:7 : ὁ νόμος ἁμαρτία ;), and the commandment, which is the law in operation, hol...
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...
(6) Wherefore the law [is] holy, and the (t) commandment holy, and just, and good. (6) The conclusion: that the law is holy in itself, and that all the fault is in us, the ones who abuse the law. (t...
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...
“ _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...
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...
12._So then the law is indeed holy_, _etc. _Some think that the words _law _and _commandment _is a repetition of the same thing; with whom I agree; (216) and I consider that there is a peculiar force...
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...
THEREFORE THE LAW IS HOLY,.... This is a conclusion or inference drawn from the preceding discourse, in commendation of the law; that standing clear of any charge or imputation of sin, as being the ca...
_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...
WHEREFORE THE LAW IS HOLY, AND THE COMMANDMENT HOLY, AND JUST, AND GOOD. In the previous section the apostle had testified to the Christians that they had been freed both from sin and from the Law, th...
THE PURPOSE OF THE LAW AND ITS EFFECT. The object of the Law:...
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....
SO THAT THE LAW IS HOLY, AND THE COMMANDMENT HOLY, AND RIGHTEOUS, AND GOOD. There is nothing wrong with God's law, the problem lies with us, we allow ourselves to become convinced that the commands of...
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...
WHEREFORE THE LAW IS HOLY; and so the objection, ROMANS 7:7, was a groundless objection: for though the law were the occasion of sin, or were made advantage of by sin, as ROMANS 7:8, yet it was not th...
So that the law is holy, and the commandment holy, and righteous, and good. [In the days of his youth (and perhaps also even in his young manhood-- Philippians 3:6), Paul had that free, untroubled con...
Clement of Alexandria The Instructor Book I " And that he knows that what is just is good, appears by his saying, "So that the law is holy, and the commandment holy, and just, and good,"[175] Clement...
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‘So that the law is holy, and the commandment holy, and righteous, and good.' Thus he had recognised that ‘the Law was holy, and that the commandment was holy and just, and good'. They were from God...
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...
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...
Romans 7:12. So that. The result of the whole discussion (Romans 7:7-11) is not to cast doubt upon the law, but to maintain its character as worthy of God who gave it. The original suggests a second m...
HOLY, AND RIGHTEOUS, AND GOOD (αγια κα δικαια κα αγαθη). This is the conclusion (wherefore, ωστε) to the query in verse Romans 7:7. The commandment is God's and so holy like Him, just in its requir...
Romans 7:12 It is plain that the revelation of the law is made to assist us in copying the pattern which is there set before us. Consider the defect of character which is the natural consequence of n...
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...
SO THEN. The Law itself is holy, even in its curse, as it restrains us from sin by its threat of punishment. Its moral requirements are holy, right, and good....
_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...
_Wherefore the law is holy, and the commandment holy: and Just, and good._ THE LAW I. Its nature. It is-- 1. Universal in its extent. It is binding at all times, in all places, and upon all. 2. Pe...
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...
1 Timothy 1:8; Deuteronomy 10:12; Deuteronomy 4:8; Nehemiah 9:13;...
Holy, just, good. Holy as God's revelation of Himself; just (Rev., righteous) in its requirements, which correspond to God's holiness; good, salutary, because of its end....
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...
The commandment — That is, every branch of the law. Is holy, and just, and good — It springs from, and partakes of, the holy nature of God; it is every way just and right in itself; it is designed who...
Observe here, What care and holy caution the apostle uses to vindicate and clear the holy law of God from all fault and blame, charging his guilt, not upon the commandment, but upon the corruption of...