John Trapp Complete Commentary
Romans 7:14
For we know that the law is spiritual: but I am carnal, sold under sin.
Ver. 14. Sold under sin] But yet ill paid of my slavery, and lusting after liberty.
For we know that the law is spiritual: but I am carnal, sold under sin.
Ver. 14. Sold under sin] But yet ill paid of my slavery, and lusting after liberty.
ROMANS 7:14 oi;damen {A} Influenced by Paul’s frequent use of “I” in verses Romans 7:7 to Romans 7:25, a few copyists and...
Verse Romans 7:14. _FOR, WE KNOW THAT THE LAW IS SPIRITUAL_] This is a general proposition, and probably, in the apostle's autograph, concluded the above sentence. The law is not to be considered as...
The remainder of this chapter has been the subject of no small degree of controversy. The question has been whether it describes the state of Paul before his conversion, or afterward. It is not the pu...
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)...
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...
SPIRITUAL. See Romans 1:11. CARNAL. Greek. sarkikos, according to the Received Text (App-94), but the Critical Texts read _sarkinos_ (compare 2 Corinthians 3:3). UNDER. App-104....
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...
_For we know_ The "_for_" points to the fact just cleared up that sin, not the law, is the true cause of the soul's misery; which results from the _collision of sin_with the law. "_We know;_" as an ad...
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...
ΟἼΔΑΜΕΝ ΓᾺΡ ὍΤΙ. Appeal to acknowledged principle. ΠΝΕΥΜΑΤΙΚΌΣ introduces the final description of the internal conflict: it is a struggle of πνεῦμα against ἁμαρτία to win the mastery of σάρξ. In thi...
ΣΆΡΚΙΝΟΣ (G4560) плотский. Обозначает материал, из которого создана природа человека (SH). Об _adj._ с этим суффиксом, обозначающим материал, из которого что-л. сделано, _см._ МН, 359, 378. ΠΕΠΡΑΜΈΝΟ...
BUT I AM CARNAL— The Apostle is here demonstrating the insufficiency of the law, in opposition to the Gospel; but if by _I_ he meant himself, or any other person whohad embraced the Gospel, then his a...
_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...
For we know that the law is spiritual: but I am carnal, sold under sin. FOR WE KNOW - that is, it is a recognized principle. But this manner of speaking is sometimes employed to express, not what...
__ 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...
7:14 know (m-3) _ Oida_ . as ch. 6.16. *I* (n-10) I have put 'I' in italic when the personal pronoun _ ego_ is emphatically introduced in Greek and the emphasis is not otherwise apparent. fleshly, (o-...
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...
(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....
FOR WE KNOW. — There is no need to argue the question. We Christians all _know_ that the Law is spiritual. It is divinely given and inspired. On the other hand, man, though capable of communion with G...
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 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...
ὁ νόμος πνευματικός : the law comes from God who is Spirit, and it shares His nature: its affinities are Divine, not human, ἐγὼ δὲ σάρκινός εἰμι, πεπραμένος ὑμὸ τὴν ἁμαρτίαν : I, as opposed to the law...
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...
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...
(8) For we know that the law is spiritual: but I am carnal, sold under sin. (8) The law is the cause of this matter because the it requires a heavenly purity, but when men are born, they are bondslav...
I am carnal, sold under sin, a slave subject to sinful inclinations, which are only properly sins when they are consented to by our free-will. There has been a great dispute both among the ancient and...
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...
“ _For we know that the law is spiritual; but I am carnal_, _sold under the power of sin._ ” We have in this cycle, Romans 7:14, an affirmation: “I acknowledge that the law...but I am captive;” then 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...
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...
14._For we know that the law, etc. _He now begins more closely to compare the law with what man is, that it may be more clearly understood whence the evil of death proceeds. He then sets before us an...
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 WE KNOW THAT THE LAW IS SPIRITUAL,.... We who have a spiritual understanding of the law, who have been led into the true nature of it by the Spirit of God, know by experience that that itself is ...
Rom. 7:14. "For we know that the Law is spiritual; but I am carnal, sold under sin." Ahab sold himself to work evil, 1 Kings 21:20, "And Ahab said to Elijah, Hast thou found me, O mine enemy? And he a...
_For we know that the law is spiritual_ Extending to the spirit of man; forbidding even the sins of the spirit; sins internal, committed merely in men's minds, such as vain thoughts, foolish imaginati...
THE LAW IS SPIRITUAL; it requires perfect holiness of spirit; that men should love God with all their heart and soul and mind and strength; and that whatever they do, they should do all to the glory o...
FOR WE KNOW THAT THE LAW IS SPIRITUAL; BUT I AM CARNAL, SOLD UNDER SIN....
The practical effect of this teaching:...
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...
FOR WE KNOW THAT THE LAW IS SPIRITUAL: BUT. AM CARNAL, SOLD UNDER SIN. "THE LAW IS SPIRITUAL" -the law cannot be sin, for it is spiritual-i.e. it is of divine origin. (Hebrews 1:1) Spirit-caused and s...
14-17 Compared with the holy rule of conduct in the law of God, the apostle found himself so very far short of perfection, that he seemed to be carnal; like a man who is sold against his will to a ha...
He goes on to clear the law, and excuse it, giving it another commendation, that it is _spiritual; _ i.e. it requires such obedience as is not only outward, but inward and spiritual; it forbids spirit...
For we know that the law is spiritual: but I am carnal, sold under sin....
Tertullian Against Marcion Book V ? "Then, again, when affirming the law to be "spiritual"[645] Novation On the Jewish Meats Therefore, first of all, we must avail ourselves of that passage, "that...
Romans 7:14 For G1063 know G1492 (G5758) that G3754 law G3551 is G2076 (G5748) spiritual G4152 but...
‘For we know that the law is spiritual; but I am fleshly, sold under sin.' If we consider the passage from Romans 7:14 to Romans 8:4 we discover an interesting fact. It commences with ‘we' and then im...
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 7:14. FOR WE KNOW. This is again an appeal to Christian experience, but we cannot infer from this that the experience of the ‘I' is distinctively Christian. This verse is a proof of Romans 7:13...
SPIRITUAL (πνευματικος). Spirit-caused and spirit-given and like the Holy Spirit. See 1 Corinthians 10:3.BUT I AM CARNAL (εγω δε σαρκινος ειμ). "Fleshen" as in 1 Corinthians 3:1 which see, more e...
CARNAL Compare (1 Corinthians 3:1); (1 Corinthians 3:4). "Carnal" meaning "fleshly" is Paul's word for the Adamic nature, and for the believer who "walks," that is, lives, under the power of it. "Na...
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...
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...
THE LAW IS SPIRITUAL. To show us that it is not God's Law, but rather sin that is the source of death, Paul points out the conflict in man. The Law requires actions which are spiritual, as our mind an...
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 7:14.—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...
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 3:1; 1 Kings 21:20; 1 Kings 21:25; 2 Kings 17:17; A
We know [ο ι δ α μ ε ν]. Denoting something generally conceded. Spiritual [π ν ε υ μ α τ ι κ ο ς]. The expression of the Holy Spirit. Carnal [σ α ρ κ ι ν ο ς]. Lit., made of flesh. A very strong exp...
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...
I am carnal — St. Paul, having compared together the past and present state of believers, that "in the flesh," Romans 7:5, and that "in the spirit," Romans 7:6, in answering two objections, (Is then t...
Still observe, How the apostle goes on to assert the purity and spirituality of the law of God: THE LAW IS SPIRITUAL; spiritual in the author of it, God, who is an Holy Spirit; spiritual in the matter...