Now if I do that I would not, I myself, it is no more I that do it, but sin that dwelleth in me.

A conclusion uniform with that before enunciated, Romans 7:16-17: “I am not master of myself; a stranger has forced his way into my house and holds me captive.”

This is really the proof of the sold unto sin, Romans 7:14. Paul does not say so by way of excuse, but to describe a state of the profoundest misery. And every time he repeats this confession, it is as if he felt himself seized with a stronger conviction of its truth. The ἐγώ, I (after that I would not), is rejected by important authorities, and condemned by Meyer. But Tischendorf seems to me to be right in preserving it. It stands in a moral relation to the ἐγώ, I, which follows: “What I would not, I myself, it is not really I who do it.”

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