μέλλετε�. The periphrastic future of the durative present—you will continue in or be in a state of death; ἀποθανεῖσθε = you will die, of the single event; cf. Moulton, p. 114; Burton, § 72. Consequently the reference is the same as in Romans 7:10-11.

θανατοῦτε. Sc. διὰ ἁμαρτίαν, Romans 8:10; the durative present. Cf. νέκρωσις, 2 Corinthians 4:10; νεκροῦν, Colossians 3:5, ct[157] aor. Romans 7:4. τὰς πράξεις τοῦ σώματος, in a bad sense, because of the |[158] κατὰ σάρκα, and in antithesis to πνεῦμα: the body’s practices independent of spirit are bad.

[157] ct. contrast
[158] | parallel to

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