Manly Luscombe Commentary on NT
Romans 7:1-4
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 Christ.
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 Christ.
CHAPTER VII. _The law has power over a man as long as he lives_, 1. _And a wife is bound to her husband only as long as he lives,_ 2, 3. _Christian believers are delivered from the Mosaic law by C...
KNOW YE NOT - This is an appeal to their own observation respecting the relation between husband and wife. The illustration Romans 7:2 is designed simply to show that as when a man dies, and the conne...
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)...
KNOW YE NOT. See Romans 6:3. SPEAK. App-121. KNOW. App-132. THE. Omit. LAW. Greek. _nomas_. Occurs over 190 times, of which about two-thirds are in Paul's Epistles, the greater number being in Rom...
Romans 7:1-6. The same subject. Illustration from matrimony 1. _Know ye not_, &c. The passage from hence to end of Romans 7:7 is closely connected with the last chapter. By a perfectly new simile (mar...
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...
ΝΌΜΟΝ. Quite general—not Roman or Jewish, but a general axiom of law. Ὁ ΝΌΜΟΣ = the law under which he lives, whatever it be....
ΆΓΝΟΕΪ́ΤΕ _praes. ind. act. от_ ΆΓΝΟΈΩ (G50) не знать, ΓΙΝΏΣΚΟΥΣΙΝ _praes. act. part. от_ ΓΙΝΏΣΚΩ (G1097) знать. Он говорит о тех, кто знает основные принципы закона вообще, будь то римский или иуде...
KNOW YE NOT, &C.— In the foregoing chapter, the Apostle shews the converted Christians the obligations that they were under to a life of holiness, and the advantages which they enjoyed for that purpos...
_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...
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? Here the apostle prosecutes his argument on the New Life of the justi...
__ 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...
7:1 law (d-13) Or 'the law.' rules (e-14) As 'have dominion,' ch. 6.9,14....
KNOW THE LAW] lit. 'know law,' i.e. probably law in general: all know that law ceases to be concerned with people when they are dead....
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 ...
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...
KNOW YE NOT. — Here again insert “or”: _Or know ye not,_ &c., carrying on the thought from the end of the last chapter. Is not, argues the Apostle, what I say true? Or do I hear the old objection rais...
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...
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...
Know (1) 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? (1) By expounding the similitude of marriage, he compares together...
As long as it liveth; or, as long as he liveth. (Challoner) --- This seems the literal construction, rather than as long as he, the man, liveth. For St. Paul here compares the law (which in the Greek...
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...
“ _Or are ye ignorant, brethren (for I speak to them that know the law), that the law hath dominion over a man for as long time as he liveth? For the married woman is bound by the law to her living hu...
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...
CONTENTS Under the Similitude of the Marriage State, the Apostle in the opening of this Chapter, represents the Power of the Law, over a Man that is wedded to the Law, as long as he liveth. But as in...
Though he had, in a brief manner, sufficiently explained the question respecting the abrogation of the law; yet as it was a difficult one, and might have given rise to many other questions, he now sho...
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...
KNOW YE NOT, BRETHREN,.... The apostle having asserted, Romans 6:14, that the believing Romans were "not under the law"; which he knew would be displeasing to many, and excepted to by them, especially...
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? Ver. 1. _Know ye not, brethren_] Bellarmine saith of his Romans (more t...
_Know ye not, brethren_ The apostle, having shown that justified and regenerated persons are free from the dominion of sin, shows here that they are also free from the yoke of the Mosaic law, it being...
The apostle had shown, in chap Romans 4:15, that "the law worketh wrath," and is unable to give justification and salvation. He had further said, in chap Romans 6:14, that believers are not under law,...
FREEDOM FROM THE LAW. 7:1-6...
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?...
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...
OR ARE YE IGNORANT, BRETHREN (FOR. SPEAK TO MEN WHO KNOW THE LAW), THAT THE LAW HATH DOMINION OVER. MAN FOR SO LONG TIME AS HE LIVETH? 'Or are ye ignorant' -'Or do you not know' (NASV). Any argument...
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...
ROMANS CHAPTER 7 ROMANS 7:1 No law having power over a person longer than he lives, ROMANS 7:4 we therefore, being become dead to the law by the body of Christ, are left free to place ourselves under...
[In Romans 6:14 Paul laid down the principle that sin does not have dominion over Christians, because they are not under law, but under grace. The section which we have just closed discusses the first...
Tertullian To His Wife Book II .[7] Tertullian On Monogamy Accordingly, it will be without cause that you will say that God wills not a divorced woman to be joined to another man "while her husband...
Romans 7:1 Or G2228 know G50 (G5719) brethren G80 for G1063 speak G2980 (G5719) know G1097 ...
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...
‘Or are you ignorant, brothers (for I speak to men who know the law), that the law has dominion over a man for so long time as he lives?' The ‘or', and the argument, both look back to Romans 6:14, ‘yo...
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...
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...
Romans 7:1. OR ARE YE IGNORANT. (Comp. chap. Romans 6:3.) In thus appealing to experience, it is implied that every believer, whether he can explain it or not, _feels_ that he is in the state describe...
TO MEN THAT KNOW THE LAW (γινωσκουσιν νομον). Dative plural of present active participle of γινωσκω. The Romans, whether Jews or Gentiles, knew the principle of law.A MAN (του ανθρωπου). "The per...
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 7:1. 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...
CERTAINLY YOU UNDERSTAND. Paul uses an illustration from human life to show that the Christian is dead to the Law. _Luther_ says: "When a husband dies, his wife, too, becomes free, and each is release...
_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...
ROMANS—NOTE ON ROMANS 7:1 In this entire chapter, LAW refers to the Mosaic law given at Mount Sinai. THOSE WHO KNOW THE LAW includes both Jews and Gentiles who are familiar with the OT. Verse...
_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 9:8; Ezra 7:25; Galatians 4:21; Proverbs 6:23; Romans 1
Brethren. All Christians, not only Jews but Gentiles who are assumed to be acquainted with the Old Testament....
The apostle continues the comparison between the former and the present state of a believer, and at the same time endeavours to wean the Jewish believers from their fondness for the Mosaic law. I spea...
As if the apostle had said, "You Jews, who study the law and are well acquainted with it, cannot but know that the law of God hath power over. man to require of him exact, perfect, and perpetual obedi...