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Verse Romans 7:23. _BUT I SEE ANOTHER LAW IN MY MEMBERS_] Though the
person in question is less or more under the continual influence of
_reason_ and _conscience_, which offer constant testimony agai...
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BUT I SEE ANOTHER LAW - Note, Romans 7:21.
IN MY MEMBERS - In my body; in my flesh; in my corrupt and sinful
propensities; Note, Romans 6:13; compare 1 Corin
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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...
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AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF THE MAN UNDER LAW. What it means to be in bondage to
the old letter (6), the apostle will show from his own experience.
That the following description belongs to Paul's legal past app...
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THE NEW ALLEGIANCE (Romans 7:1-6)...
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We are aware that the law is spiritual; but I am a creature of flesh
and blood under the power of sin. I cannot understand what I do. What
I want to do, that I do not do; but what I hate, that I do. I...
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SEE. App-133.
WARRING AGAINST. Greek. _antistrateuomai._ Only here.
BRINGING... INTO CAPTIVITY. (seeking to) lead captive. Greek.
_aichmalotizo._ Only here. Luke 21:24. 2Co 10:5. 2 Timothy 3:6. The
k...
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E. THE STATE DESCRIBED IN Ch. Romans 7:14-24
The controversy over this profound passage is far too wide to allow
of full treatment here. It is scarcely needful to say that conclusions
very different...
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_I see_ The true Self contemplates, as it were, the perverting
element, the _Alter Ego_, the flesh. Such conscious contemplation
surely befits the idea of the regenerate state rather than that of the...
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Romans 7:7-25. The new life is effective to achieve righteousness in
each man, as the law could not do.
(7) Not that the law is itself sin, but it awakes the consciousness of
sin, as, for instance, co...
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ἘΝ ΤΟΙ͂Σ ΜΈΛΕΣΙΝ describes the flesh as organised and
active in various directions = the σῶμα in detail. Observe that
S. Paul does not say ‘_of_ my members’ but ‘_in_ my members.’
He carefully avoids...
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ΆΝΤΙΣΤΡΑΤΕΥΌΜΕΝΟΝ _praes. med. (dep.) part. (adj.)
от_ ΑΝΤΙΣΤΡΑΤΕΎΟΜΑΙ (G497) предпринимать
военный поход или занимать позицию
против кого-л., противостоять, воевать
с кем-л. (Т). Об отношении иудаизм...
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DISCOURSE: 1854
SPIRITUAL CONFLICTS OF BELIEVERS
Romans 7:18. I know that in me (that is, in my flesh,) dwelleth no
good thing: for to will is present with me; but how to perform that
which is good, I...
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ANOTHER LAW IN MY MEMBERS— St. Paul having in the foregoing verse
spoken of the _law of God,_ he here speaks of natural inclination as
of a law;—as of _a law in the members,_ and _a law of sin in the...
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_TEXT_
Romans 7:13-25. Did then that which is good become death unto me? God
forbid. But sin, that it might be shown to be sin, by working death to
me through that which is good;that through the comma...
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But I see another law in my members, warring against the law of my
mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of sin which is in my
members.
BUT I SEE ANOTHER LAW, [ heteron (G2087), not allo...
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Conciliation-Individual
13 From the supposition that the law being holy and just and good,
involved him in death. it seems that what is good may become the cause
of death. But such is not the cas...
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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 ...
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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...
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(14-25) Further and detailed proof why it was that though the Law
appealed to all that was best in man, still he could not obey it....
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ANOTHER LAW. — A different law. “In my members,” _i.e.,_ that
has its chief seat of activity in my members. This is the law of sin,
which is ready to take advantage of every fleshly impulse....
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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...
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CHAPTER 16
THE FUNCTION OF THE LAW IN THE SPIRITUAL LIFE
Romans 7:7
THE Apostle has led us a long way in his great argument; through sin,
propitiation, faith, union, surrender, to that wonderful and...
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Romans 7:21-23 summarise the argument. εὑρίσκω ἄρα τὸν
νόμον … ὅτι : most commentators hold that the clause
introduced by ὅτι is the explanation of τὸν νόμον. The
law, in short, which Paul has discove...
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The last section of the chapter confirms the argument in which Paul
has vindicated the law, by exhibiting the power of sin in the flesh.
It is this which makes the law Weak, and defeats its good inten...
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THE CONFLICT WITHIN
Romans 7:14
The Apostle gives a further statement of his personal experience of
the inability of the soul to realize the divine ideal which has been
revealed to it as the norm and...
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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...
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But I see another law in my members, warring against the law of my (c)
mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of sin which is in my
members.
(c) The law of the mind in this place is not to b...
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It is from this Romans 7:14 especially that the difference between the
two explanations of the passage comes out: that which applies it to
the state of man regenerate, and that which regards it as dep...
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THIRD CYCLE: ROMANS 7:21-25.
This cycle, while repeating the same experiences, stamps them as the
abiding and definitive _result_ of the state of things described
throughout the whole passage (ἄρα, _c...
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SECOND SECTION (7:7-25). POWERLESSNESS OF THE LAW TO SANCTIFY MAN.
Sixteenth Passage (Vers. 7-25.)
The essential ideas of this passage are the following: After having
involved man in death (Romans 7...
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“ _For I applaud the law of God after the inward man: but I see
another law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and
bringing me into captivity to the law of sin which is in my members._...
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This verse is the development of 21b: _Evil is present with me._ All
the expressions of this verse refer to the same figure and form a
picture. At the moment when the speaker starts to follow the law...
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For we know that the law is spiritual: but I am carnal, sold under
sin. (15) For that which I do I allow not: for what I would, that do I
not; but what I hate, that do I. (16) If then I do that which...
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_RESTORATION OF FALLEN HUMANITY_
‘I see another law in my members, warring against the law of my
mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of sin which is in my
members. O wretched man that I a...
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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...
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BUT I SEE ANOTHER LAW IN MY MEMBERS,.... That is, he saw, he perceived
it by experience; he felt the force and power of inbred corruption
working in him, and as a law demanding obedience to it; and wh...
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But I see another law in my members, warring against the law of my
mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of sin which is in my
members.
Ver. 23. _A law in my members_] Called the deeds of t...
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_But I see another law_ Another commanding, constraining power of evil
inclinations and fleshly appetites, whose influence is so strong and
constant, that it may be fitly called another law; _in my me...
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ANOTHER LAW; different from my prevailing inclination, my earnest
desire.
WARRING AGAINST; opposing, hindering, and thwarting the full
accomplishment of my wishes.
THE LAW OF MY MIND; the desires of...
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The difficulty of the struggle and the plea for deliverance:...
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BUT I SEE ANOTHER LAW IN MY MEMBERS, WARRING AGAINST THE LAW OF MY
MIND, AND BRINGING ME INTO CAPTIVITY TO THE LAW OF SIN WHICH IS IN MY
MEMBERS....
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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...
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BUT. SEE. DIFFERENT LAW IN MY MEMBERS, WARRING AGAINST THE LAW OF MY
MIND, AND BRINGING ME INTO CAPTIVITY UNDER THE LAW OF SIN WHICH IS IN
MY MEMBERS. "DIFFERENT LAW" -'I see another principle' (Gspd)...
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23-25 This passage does not represent the apostle as one that walked
after the flesh, but as one that had it greatly at heart, not to walk
so. And if there are those who abuse this passage, as they a...
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ANOTHER LAW IN MY MEMBERS; i.e. a law quite different from _the law of
God, _ mentioned in the foregoing verse. By the _law in_ the _members_
understand natural corruption, which, like a law, commande...
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Tertullian Against Marcion Book V
For he in a previous verse ascribed sin to the flesh, and made it out
to be "the law of sin dwelling in his members," and "warring against
the law of the mind."[647]...
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Romans 7:23 But G1161 see G991 (G5719) another G2087 law G3551 in
G1722 my G3450 members G3196 against...
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‘I find then the law, that, to me who would do good, evil is
present. For I delight in the law of God after the inward man, but I
see a different law in my members, warring against the law of my mind,...
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Romans 7:23. BUT I SEE A DIFFERENT LAW. Not simply ‘another,' but a
‘different,' one; comp. Galatians 1:6-7. Paul represents himself as
witnessing the conflict within his own person.
IN MY MEMBERS. T...
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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...
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2. _The Law is holy_, _but cannot make Sinners holy_.
The fact that Christians are freed from the law might suggest a wrong
inference as to the character of the law. This Paul denies (Romans
7:7), but...
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Romans 7:22-23. We have four phrases contrasted in pairs: ‘The law
of God;' ‘another law in my members,' etc.; ‘the law of my mind;'
‘the law of sin and death,' etc. Each phrase has its distinct
meani...
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A DIFFERENT LAW
(ετερον νομον). For the distinction between ετερος
and αλλος, see Galatians 1:6.WARRING AGAINST
(αντιστρατευομενον). Rare verb (_Xenophon_) to carry
on a campaign against. Only he...
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SIN
SIN
(_ See Scofield) - (Romans 5:21). _...
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Romans 7:14
Dualism in the Life.
I. This is the earliest place in this Epistle where the two terms
"flesh and spirit" occur in clear contrast, with the peculiar ethical
sense conferred upon them by o...
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Romans 7:22
Victory amid Strife.
I. There are, says an ancient father, four states of man. In the
first, man struggles not, but is subdued; in the second, he struggles
and is still subdued; in the th...
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Romans 7:22
I. When a man begins to hunger and thirst after righteousness, and,
discontented with himself, attempts to improve himself, he soon begins
to find a painful truth in many a word of the Bib...
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This is Paul's own account of his inward conflicts. He longed to
conquer sin. He wanted to become a free man, and live always a godly
and holy life, but he found that there was a battle within his nat...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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BUT I SEE A DIFFERENT LAW. This continual conflict in man goes on
between the _inner being_ who delights in the law of God, and the law
of sin and death which holds him prisoner....
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TO WHOM DOES THE PASSAGE REFER?
_To the unregenerate.--_
It has been much discussed whether this section describes a justified
man, or a man still unforgiven. The latter view was held by Origen and
t...
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_I find then a law, that, when I would do good, evil is present with
me._
THE INWARD CONFLICT
There is no word with which we are more familiar than “conflict.”
We see strife everywhere; amongst the e...
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ROMANS—NOTE ON ROMANS 7:21 The meaning of “law” in these verses
has been debated. Some think every use of the word refers to the
Mosaic law. Most argue that in vv. Romans 7:21 and...
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ROMANS—NOTE ON ROMANS 7:13 Even if the law is not sin (vv. Romans
7:7), is the good law responsible for death? Paul argues that the
fault lies with sin, not with the law. Through the law, sin is
revea...
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ROMANS—NOTE ON ROMANS 7:7 The claim that the Mosaic law produced sin
and death raises the question, Is the law itself sinful? Paul explains
that the law itself is good and that the fault lies with sin...
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_CRITICAL NOTES_
Romans 7:14.—Rabbins: “The law, because of its spirituality, will
dwell only in the soul that is free from dross.”
Romans 7:15.—I am blinded, I am hurried along and tripped up, I kno...
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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....
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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...
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1 Peter 2:11; 1 Timothy 6:11; 1 Timothy 6:12; 2 Timothy 2:25;...
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I see [β λ ε π ω]. See on John 1:29. Paul is a spectator of his
own personality.
Another [ε τ ε ρ ο ν]. See on Matthew 6:24.
Warring against [α ν τ ι σ τ ρ α τ ε υ ο μ ε ν ο ν].
Only here in the New...
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THE INWARD CONFLICT
Romans 7:7
INTRODUCTORY WORDS
The first part of the seventh of Romans presents the illustration of a
woman with two husbands. It tells us that the woman which hath a
husband, is...
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But I see another law in my members — Another inward constraining
power of evil inclinations and bodily appetites. Warring against the
law of my mind — The dictate of my mind, which delights in the la...
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Here observe, That in this and the foregoing verses, mention is made
of four laws contending one against another, whereof two are on one
side, and two on the other; namely, the law of God, and the law...