Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Romans 7:17
It is no more I that can properly be said to do it, but rather sin that dwelleth in me — That makes, as it were, another person, and tyrannizes over me.
It is no more I that can properly be said to do it, but rather sin that dwelleth in me — That makes, as it were, another person, and tyrannizes over me.
Verse 17. _NOW THEN IT IS NO MORE I_] It is not that _I_ which constitutes _reason_ and _conscience, but sin_-corrupt and sensual inclinations, _that dwelleth in me_-that has the entire domination ov...
IT IS NO MORE I THAT DO IT - This is evidently figurative language, for it is really the man that sins when evil is committed. But the apostle makes a distinction between sin and what he intends by th...
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...
NOW THEN. But now. NO MORE. no longer. Greek. _ouketi._ SIN... ME. the indwelling sin (App-128.) DWELLETH. Greek. _oikeo_. Here, verses: Rom 18:20. Romans 8:9, Rom 8:11 -. 1 Corinthians 3:16;...
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...
_Now_ i.e. IN THIS STATE OF THE CASE. _it is no more I_ The Gr. is lit. BUT NOW NO LONGER I DO IT, &c. The "_no longer_" is noteworthy, as implying (in the natural and common meaning of the words) a _...
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...
ΝΥΝῚ ΔῈ. But, in this case, this being so. ΟΥ̓ΚΈΤΙ ἘΓῺ. It is, when this point is reached, no longer my true self that is producing these effects, but the indwelling and alien tyrant....
ΟΎΚΈΤΙ (G3765) больше не. ΟΙΚΟΎΣΑ _praes. act. part. от_ ΟΊΚΈΩ (G3611) обитать....
SIN THAT DWELLETH IN ME— That is, _reigneth in me._ So God is said to _dwell_ among the Israelites, as their king and governor; Exodus 25:8; Exodus 29:45.Numbers 35:34. _Dwell,_ here and...
_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...
Now then it is no more I that do it, but sin that dwelleth in me. NOW THEN IT IS NO MORE I (MY RENEWED SELF) THAT DO IT ('THAT WORK IT'), BUT SIN THAT DWELLETH IN ME - that principle of sin that st...
__ 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...
7:17 do (a-9) See Note, ver. 15....
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...
This, then, appears to be the true explanation of the difficulty. There is really a dualism in the soul. I am not to be identified with that lower self which is enthralled by sin....
(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....
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 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...
Νυνὶ δὲ οὐκέτι ἐγὼ κατεργάζομαι αὐτό. ἐγὼ is the true I, and emphatic. As things are, in view of the facts just explained, it is not the true self which is responsible for this line of conduct, but th...
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...
Now then it is no more I that do it, but (z) sin that dwelleth in me. (z) That natural corruption, which adheres strongly even to those that are regenerated, and is not completely gone....
Now then it is no more I that do it: To will good is present with me. These expressions all shew that he speaks of temptations that affect the sense only, the imagination, or the members of the body,...
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...
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...
“ _If then I do that which I would not, I consent with the law that it is good. And now it is no more I that perform it, but sin that dwelleth in me._ ” These two verses draw the conclusion from the...
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...
17._Now it is no more I who do it_, _etc. _This is not the pleading of one excusing himself, as though he was blameless, as the case is with many triflers who think that they have a sufficient defense...
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...
NOW THEN, IT IS NO MORE I THAT DO IT,.... This is another inference, deduced from what is before said, that since he did not approve, but hated what he did, and willed the contrary, it was not he as s...
Now then it is no more I that do it, but sin that dwelleth in me. Ver. 17. _It is no more I_] Mr Bradford, martyr, in a certain letter thus comforteth his friend: At this present, my dear heart in th...
_If then I do that which I would not_, &c. In willing not to do it, I do so far, though to my own condemnation, _consent to the law_, and bear my testimony to it _that it is good_ And do indeed desire...
NO MORE I-BUT SIN; it is not my habitual inclination, my prevailing desire, to break the law. I do not love transgression, but abhor it; yet in many things I offend, and in all come short of perfect o...
The practical effect of this teaching:...
NOW, THEN, IT IS NO MORE I THAT DO IT, BUT SIN THAT DWELLETH IN ME. To make sure that every misunderstanding is definitely removed, Paul here, in speaking of the struggle of the regenerated for sancti...
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...
SO NOW IT IS NO MORE. THAT DO IT, BUT SIN WHICH DWELLETH IN ME. "NO MORE. THAT DO IT" -clearly Paul isn't saying that he is not responsible for his sins, or that he can't help himself. (Romans 6:12; R...
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...
IT IS NO MORE I THAT DO IT; i.e. it is not I as spiritual or renewed, it is not my whole self, BUT it is SIN THAT DWELLETH IN ME, that inhabits in me as a troublesome inmate, that I cannot get rid of,...
So now it is no more I that do it, but sin which dwelleth in me. [From what I have said it is apparent that it is not my spiritual or better self, uninfluenced by the flesh, which does the evil; but i...
Clement of Alexandria Stromata Book III Prius enim dixit: "Sed inhabitarts in me peccatum; "propter quod consentaneum erat dicere illud: "Non habitat in came mea bonum."[127] Tertullian On the Resur...
Romans 7:17 But G1161 now G3570 longer G3765 I G1473 do G2716 (G5736) it G846 but G235 sin...
‘So now it is no more I who do it, but sin which dwells in me.' But why, says Paul, do I sometimes behave like this? What explanation can there be? His reply is that it is because what he does is not...
Romans 7:17. HOW THEN, or, ‘but now,' as the case stands. IT IS NO LONGER I THAT PERFORM IT, _i.e.,_ ‘what I wish not.' I am a slave under sin, what ‘I perform, I know not' (Romans 7:16). Both ‘now'...
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...
SO NOW (νυν δε). A logical contrast, "as the case really stands."BUT SIN THAT DWELLETH IN ME (αλλ' η ενοικουσα εν εμο αμαρτια). "But the dwelling in me sin." Not my true self, my higher personali...
SIN SIN (_ See Scofield) - (Romans 5:21). _...
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...
SO I AM NOT REALLY THE ONE. It is not "Paul the free-man" who sins, but "Paul the slave to sin." The sin that lives in us: (1) interferes with the good we would like to do; (2) like some evil spirit,...
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 7:17 Paul emphasizes the power of sin. ⇐ ⇔...
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...
2 Corinthians 8:12; James 4:5; James 4:6; Philippians 3:8; Philippia
Now - no more [ν υ ν ι - ο υ κ ε τ ι]. Not temporal, pointing back to a time when it was otherwise, but logical, pointing to an inference. After this statement you can no more maintain that, etc. I ...
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...