Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Romans 7:4
Thus ye also — Are now as free from the Mosaic law as an husband is, when his wife is dead. By the body of Christ — Offered up; that is, by the merits of his death, that law expiring with him.
Thus ye also — Are now as free from the Mosaic law as an husband is, when his wife is dead. By the body of Christ — Offered up; that is, by the merits of his death, that law expiring with him.
Verse Romans 7:4. _WHEREFORE, MY BRETHREN_] This is a parallel case. You were once under the law of Moses, and were bound by its injunctions; but now ye are become dead to that law - a modest, inoffe...
WHEREFORE - This verse contains an application of the illustration in the two preceding. The idea there is, that death dissolves a connection from which obligation resulted. This is the single point o...
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...
ESPOUSAL TO CHRIST. Paul returns to his paradox about Law and Grace (Romans 6:14 f.) and illustrates it by marriage, _Christ_ now standing for _Grace._ ROMANS 7:1. Wedlock binds while the husband li...
You are bound to know, brothers--for I speak to men who know what law means--that the law has authority over a man only for the duration of his life. Thus, a married woman remains bound by law to her...
THE NEW ALLEGIANCE (Romans 7:1-6)...
ARE BECOME DEAD. were put to death. Greek. _thanatoo._ See Matthew 10:21.Mark 13:12. 2Co 6:9. 1 Peter 3:18. THE LAW. Compare Romans 2:1
_Wherefore_ The word marks transition from the facts to the spiritual inference. _are become dead_ Lit., and better, WERE MADE DEAD; a passive verb, suggesting the external, objective work which caus...
ἘΘΑΝΑΤΏΘΗΤΕ, you were put to death, i.e. your former nature was slain but you yourselves survived to enter upon a new life, free from that law which bound the old nature, but with its own characterist...
Romans 6:1 to Romans 7:6. The ethical bearing and standard of the new life in Christ. (1) Are we to conclude that the state of sin is to continue, as a provocative, so to speak, of the graciousness of...
ΏΣΤΕ (G5620) таким образом, следовательно. Скорее делает вывод или заключение из предыдущего, чем является сравнением, и связывает сказанное с христианами, которые в настоящее время находятся в положе...
DISCOURSE: 1851 DEADNESS TO THE LAW, AND UNION WITH CHRIST Romans 7:4. _My brethren, ye also are become dead to the law by the body of Christ; that ye should be married to another, even to him who is...
WHEREFORE, MY BRETHREN— The original word Ωστε, rendered _wherefore,_ is used in comparison for _ut, sic,—as, so.—You are become dead to the law,_ means, "because the law is become dead to you;" an _h...
_TEXT_ Romans 7:1-6.Or are ye ignorant, brethren (for I speak to men who know the law), that the law hath dominion over a man for so long time as he liveth? Romans 7:2 For the woman that hath a husban...
Wherefore, my brethren, ye also are become dead to the law by the body of Christ; that ye should be married to another, even to him who is raised from the dead, that we should bring forth fruit unto...
__ 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 ...
BY THE BODY OF CHRIST] i.e. through your union with Christ crucified....
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...
ARE BECOME DEAD. — _Were rendered dead_ — somewhat stronger than simply “ye died.” BY THE BODY OF CHRIST — _i.e.,_ by the death of the human body of Christ upon the cross. The Christian, as the last c...
VII. (1-6) The Apostle takes up an idea to which he had alluded in Romans 7:14 of the preceding chapter, “Ye are not under the Law, but under grace;” and as he had worked out the conclusion of the dea...
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...
For ἢ ἀγνοεῖτε, _cf._ Romans 6:3. Chap. 6 contains the argument which is illustrated in these verses, and the question alludes to it: not to accept the argument that the Christian is free from all leg...
ὥστε καὶ ὑμεῖς ἐθανατώθητε τῷ νόμῳ : the inference is drawn rather from the principle than from the example, but καὶ ὑμεῖς means “you as well as the woman in the illustration,” not “you Gentiles as we...
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...
(2) Wherefore, my brethren, ye also are become dead to the law by the (b) body of Christ; that ye should be married to another, [even] to him who is raised from the dead, that we should bring forth (c...
“ _So that, my brethren, ye also are become dead to the law by the body of Christ; that ye should belong to another, even to Him who is raised from the dead, that we should bring forth fruit to God._...
FIFTEENTH PASSAGE (7:1-6). THE BELIEVER IS SET FREE FROM THE LAW AT THE SAME TIME THAT HE IS SET FREE FROM SIN. AGREEABLY to the proposition stated Romans 6:14: “Sin shall no more have dominion over y...
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? (2) For the woman which hath an husband is bound by the law to her husba...
4._Through the body of Christ. _Christ, by the glorious victory of the cross, first triumphed over sin; and that he might do this, it was necessary that the handwriting, by which we were held bound, s...
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...
WHEREFORE, MY BRETHREN, YE ALSO,.... Here the apostle accommodates the foregoing instance and example to the case in hand, showing, that the saints were not under the law, the power and dominion of it...
Wherefore, my brethren, ye also are become dead to the law by the body of Christ; that ye should be married to another, _even_ to him who is raised from the dead, that we should bring forth fruit unto...
_Wherefore, my brethren_ Hence it follows, or by this comparison it appears; _ye also_ Believing Jews, and much more believing Gentiles; _are become dead to the law_ Taken off from all hopes of justif...
YE ALSO ARE BECOME DEAD TO THE LAW; in carrying out the comparison, the apostle necessarily changes its form somewhat. He could not well say that the law, which may be here regarded as their former hu...
FREEDOM FROM THE LAW. 7:1-6...
WHEREFORE, MY BRETHREN, YE ALSO ARE BECOME DEAD TO THE LAW BY THE BODY OF CHRIST, THAT YE SHOULD BE MARRIED TO ANOTHER, EVEN TO HIM WHO IS RAISED FROM THE DEAD, THAT WE SHOULD BRING FORTH FRUIT UNTO G...
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...
1-4 DEAD TO THE LAW - MARRIED TO CHRIST Illustration of civil marriage "until death" What died? You died to the law. You were raised from the dead in baptism. Therefore: We can now be married to C...
WHEREFORE, MY BRETHREN, YE ALSO WERE MADE DEAD TO THE LAW THROUGH THE BODY OF CHRIST; THAT YE SHOULD BE JOINED TO ANOTHER, EVEN TO HIM WHO WAS RAISED FROM THE DEAD, THAT WE MIGHT BRING FORTH FRUIT UNT...
1-6 So long as a man continues under the law as a covenant, and seeks justification by his own obedience, he continues the slave of sin in some form. Nothing but the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus, c...
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Wherefore, my brethren, ye also were made dead to the law through the body of Christ; that ye should be joined to another, even to him who was raised from the dead, that we might bring forth fruit unt...
Clement of Alexandria Stromata Book III Vivit enim lex, cum sit spiritalis, et gnostice intelligatur: nos autem "mortui" sumus "legi per corpus Christi, ut gigneremur alteri, qui resurrrexit ex mortu...
Romans 7:4 Therefore G5620 my G3450 brethren G80 you G5210 also G2532 dead G2289 (G5681) law G3551 through...
WHAT THEN OF THE LAW? IS THE LAW GOOD OR BAD? AND HOW DOES THE CHRISTIAN STAND IN RELATION TO THE LAW. HOW CAN IT BE FULFILLED? (7:1-8:4). Whereas chapter 6 has concentrated on our deliverance from th...
DELIVERANCE FROM UNDER THE LAW (7:1-6). Paul now declares that the Christian is delivered from the dominion of the Law because he has died to it in the death of Christ, and this in order that he might...
‘On which basis, my brothers, you also were made dead to the law through the body of Christ; that you should be joined to another, even to him who was raised from the dead, that we might bring forth f...
Romans 7:4. ACCORDINGLY; lit, ‘so that.' This introduces the application of the figure in Romans 7:2-3. YE ALSO, as in the case of the widow. WERE MADE DEAD TO THE LAW. The idea is not of being dea...
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...
1. WE ARE FREED FROM IT (ROMANS 7:1); FOR, 2, ALTHOUGH IT IS HOLY, IT CANNOT MAKE SINNERS HOLY (ROMANS 7:7). 1. _Christians are freed from the Law._ This section might more properly form a part of th...
YE ALSO WERE MADE TO THE LAW (κα υμεις εθανατωθητε). First aorist indicative passive of θανατοω, old verb, to put to death (Matthew 10:21) or to make to die (extinct) as here and Romans 8:13. The an...
MARRIED Joined. (Ephesians 5:31); Same Greek word. Bride (of Christ). (2 Corinthians 11:1); (John 3:29); ...
Romans 7:1 "Law _versus_Grace.". Note: I. St. Paul's maxim that it is death which puts an end to all obligation created by statute law. Expositors have often remarked how fond this apostle was of le...
Romans 7:4 I. "Ye are dead." This spiritual death must surely be in some profound sense so often and so earnestly is the phrase reiterated the mystical image of that death from which it derives its na...
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...
THAT IS THE WAY. "Since marriage is terminated by the death of either spouse, you Jews, who were married to God as your king, and obligated to obey the Law of Moses, are legally free from that marriag...
_Know ye not, brethren … how that the law hath dominion over a man as long as he liveth?_ BELIEVERS NOT UNDER THE LAW AS A COVENANT OF WORKS I. All men are, naturally, under the law as a covenant of...
_Ye also are become dead to the law by the body of Christ: that ye should be married to another._ THE SINNER MARRIED TO THE LAW--THE BELIEVER MARRIED TO THE LORD I. The sinner, before believing, is...
ROMANS—NOTE ON ROMANS 7:4 Whereas the _husband_ dies in the illustration in vv. Romans 7:2, here _believers_ die to the law through the death of _Christ_. The comparison does not match perfectly, but...
_CRITICAL NOTES_ Romans 7:1.—The law is lord over the man. There is nothing shocking in the assertion that we are no longer under the law. You all know that the power of the law over a man ceases at...
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 10:16; 1 Peter 2:24; 2 Corinthians 11:2; Colossians 1:10;...
Are become dead [ε θ α ν α τ ω θ η τ ε]. Rev., more accurately, ye were made dead, put to death; because this ethical death is fellowship with Christ's death, which was by violence. Who was raised. An...