the strength of sin is the law That the sting of death should be sin is very easy to understand. It is not so easy at first sight to account for the introduction here of St Paul's favourite doctrine (see Romans 7) that -the strength of sin is the law." Yet the sequence of thought may be discovered. What gives sin its power at that supreme moment is the fact that it is the transgression of the righteous Law of an all-wise and all-holy being. (Romans 7:12; Romans 7:14; 1 Timothy 1:8.)

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