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ROMANS 7:22 qeou/ {A}
The scribe of B, having noticed tw|/ no,mw| tou/ noo,j in ver. Romans
7:23, inadvertently replaced qeou/ with noo,j in...
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Verse Romans 7:22. _I DELIGHT IN THE LAW OF GOD AFTER THE INWARD
MAN_] Every _Jew_, and every _unregenerate man_, who receives the Old
Testament as a revelation from God, must acknowledge the great p...
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FOR I DELIGHT - The word used here Συνήδομαι Sunēdomai,
occurs no where else in the New Testament. It properly means to
rejoice with anyone; and expresses not only approbation of the
understanding,...
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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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DELIGHT. Greek. _sunedomai._ Only here. Compare Psalms 1:2; Psalms
112:1; Psalms 119:35 (Septuagint)
INWARD. Greek. _eso_. Adverb used as Adjective. Compare...
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_I delight in_ Lit. I DELIGHT WITH. The Law, as the will of God, is
quasi-personified, and the regenerate soul "rejoices _with it_" in its
delight in holiness and truth. The Law's loves and hatreds ar...
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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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ΤΩ͂Ι ΝΌΜΩΙ ΤΟΥ͂ ΘΕΟΥ͂. The law of GOD, however
revealed, but always in the form of positive command.
ΤῸΝ ἜΣΩ ἌΝΘΡΩΠΟΝ describes the inner core of
personality, including mind and will. Cf. Romans 6:6...
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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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ΣΥΝΉΔΟΜΑΙ _praes. ind. med. (dep.)_ (G4913) ликовать
с кем-л., радостно соглашаться. ΈΣ (G2080)
внутренний....
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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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_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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For I delight in the law of God after the inward man:
FOR I DELIGHT IN THE LAW OF GOD AFTER THE INWARD MAN - q.d., 'from
the bottom of my heart.' The word [ suneedomai (G4913)] used here
only, and...
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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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I DELIGHT. — “I delight in (and with) the Law of God.” I
sympathise with and approve of it after the inward man, _i.e.,_ in the
higher part of my being. “The inward man” corresponds nearly,
though not...
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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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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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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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f. Further explanation: the incongruity between inclination and action
has its roots in a division within man's nature. The law of God
legislates for him, and in the inner man (Ephesians 3:16) he deli...
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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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For I delight in the law of God after the (b) inward man:
(b) The inner man and the new man are the same, and are compared and
contrasted with the old man; and neither do these words "inward man"
sig...
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I am delighted with the law of God according to the inward man. As
long as the inward man, or man's interior, is right, all is right. ---
(I perceive another law in my members, fighting, and different...
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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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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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“ _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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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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22._For I consent _(230) _to the law of God_, _etc. _Here then you see
what sort of division there is in pious souls, from which arises that
contest between the spirit and the flesh, which [Augustine...
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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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FOR I DELIGHT IN THE LAW OF GOD,.... This an unregenerate man cannot
do; he does not like its commands, they are disagreeable to his
corrupt nature; and as it is a threatening, cursing, damning law, i...
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For I delight in the law of God after the inward man:
Ver. 22. _I delight_] Germanicus reigned in the Romans' hearts, but
Tiberius in the provinces. So here....
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_For I delight in the law of God_ On this verse, chiefly, rests the
opinion that the apostle, in the latter part of this chapter, is
describing the character of a regenerate man. Its votaries think th...
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I DELIGHT IN THE LAW OF GOD; love it, and desire perfectly to obey it.
AFTER THE INWARD MAN; inwardly, from the heart. I not merely approve
of it in my conscience and judgment, but through the grace o...
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FOR I DELIGHT IN THE LAW OF GOD AFTER THE INWARD MAN;...
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The difficulty of the struggle and the plea for deliverance:...
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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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18-22 The more pure and holy the heart is, it will have the more
quick feeling as to the sin that remains in it. The believer sees more
of the beauty of holiness and the excellence of the law. His ea...
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This shows yet more expressly that the apostle speaketh in the person
of a regenerate man, or of himself as regenerate. Certainly, to
DELIGHT IN THE LAW OF GOD is an inseparable property of such a one...
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For I delight in the law of God after the inward man :...
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Methodius From the Discourse on the Resurrection
And the same is denoted by the words, "For I delight in the law of God
after the inward man; but I see another law in my members, warring
against the...
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Romans 7:22 For G1063 delight G4913 (G5736) law G3551 God G2316
according G2596 inward G2080 man G444
I
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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 7:22-23. 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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Romans 7:22. FOR I DELIGHT IN THE LAW OF GOD. ‘For' introduces an
explanation of Romans 7:21. ‘Delight in' is stronger than ‘agree
with' (Romans 7:16), but must not be pressed too far, since...
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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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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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FOR I DELIGHT IN
(συνηδομα γαρ). Old verb, here alone in N.T., with
associative instrumental case, "I rejoice with the law of God," my
real self "after the inward man" (κατα τον εσω
ανθρωπον) of 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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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 7:14
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 7:1. 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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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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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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MY INNER BEING. The _inner being_ is not the same as the new nature;
but is the side of human nature that is _tuned in_ to God. Compare
Romans 2:14....
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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 3:4; 2 Corinthians 4:16; Colossians 3:9; Ephesians 3:16;...
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I delight in [σ υ ν η δ ο μ α ι]. Lit., I rejoice with.
Stronger than I consent unto (ver., 16). It is the agreement of moral
sympathy.
The inward man [τ ο ν ε σ ω α ν θ ρ ω π ο ν]. The
rational and m...
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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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For I delight in the law of God — This is more than "I consent to,"
Romans 7:16. The day of liberty draws near. The inward man — Called
the mind, Romans 7:23, Romans 7:25....
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If by the inward man we understand the mind and understanding of. man
only, then the unregenerate person may be said to delight in the all
of God, with Ezekiel's hearers, Ezekiel 33:32; with Herod, Ma...