Romans 7:24

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 him beyond actual memory into the imagination of a pre-moral state, so here he carries the analysis of the internal strife, perhaps beyond his actual experience, into the sympathetic realisation of the common human state and need, when man’s spirit realises its extremity and does not yet see hope: though the very realisation is the first gleam of hope. Cf. S. H. See Additional Note, p. 218.