Our old man; our natural love of sin, and inclination to commit it.

Is crucified with him; a repetition of the idea that we die with Christ to sin. The apostle uses the word crucified with reference to the manner of our Lord's death; perhaps also to intimate the lingering and painful nature of the process by which the old man dies, to give place to the new man.

The body of sin; the same as "the law of sin which is in my members," chap Romans 7:23, which in the old man controls the body, making it a body of sin and death, chap Romans 7:24.

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Old Testament