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Verse Romans 7:9. _I WAS ALIVE WITHOUT THE LAW ONCE_] Dr. Whitby
paraphrases the verse thus:-"For the seed of Abraham _was alive_
_without the law once_, before the law was given, I being not
obnoxio...
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FOR I - There seems to be no doubt that the apostle here refers to his
own past experience. Yet in this he speaks the sentiment of all who
are unconverted, and who are depending on their own righteous...
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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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What then are we to infer? That the law is sin? God forbid! So far
from that, I would never have known what sin meant except through the
law. I would never have known desire if the law had not said, ...
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THE NEW ALLEGIANCE (Romans 7:1-6)...
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CAME. App-106.
REVIVED. Greek. _anazao._ Here, Romans 14:9; Luke 15:24; Luke
15:32.Revelation 20:5....
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_For I_ The "I" is emphatic. Through this section, as often elsewhere,
Sin is quasi-personified, and distinguished from the Self which
nevertheless it fatally infects. It is an alien thing, an invasio...
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ἘΓῺ ΔῈ ἜΖΩΝ Κ.Τ.Λ. ‘I was living unaffected by law
once.’ He goes back to a pre-moral state—not necessarily in actual
memory of a completely non-moral experience, but comparatively: his
life as a chil...
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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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ΈΖΩΝ _impf. ind. act. от_ ΖΆΩ (G2198) жить. Он не
боялся наказания и не ощущал
болезненного присутствия греха (Hodge),
ΈΛΘΟΎΣΗΣ _aor. act. part. (temp.) от_ ΈΡΧΟΜΑΙ (G2064)
приходить. _Gen. abs. Aor....
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DISCOURSE: 1853
THE SPIRITUALITY OF THE LAW
Romans 7:9. _I was alive without the law once: but when the
commandment came, sin revived, and I died_.
WHEN we behold the extreme supineness of those arou...
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TEXT
Romans 7:7-12. What shall we say then? Is the law sin? God forbid.
Howbeit, I had not known sin, except through the law: for I had not
known coveting, except the law had said, Thou shalt not cove...
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For I was alive without the law once: but when the commandment came,
sin revived, and I died.
FOR I WAS ALIVE WITHOUT THE LAW ONCE, [ pote (G4218)] - 'at one
time,' or 'formerly'-q.d., 'In the day...
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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...
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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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I WAS ALIVE] 'I' emphatic
10, _Ordained_] RV omits....
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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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I WAS ALIVE. — The state of unconscious morality, uninstructed but
as yet uncondemned, may, compared with that state of condemnation, be
regarded as a state of “life.”
REVIVED. — The English version...
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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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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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The actual working of the law. A very close connection between the law
and sin is implied in all that has preceded: especially in Romans
6:14, and in such an expression as τὰ παθὴματα τῶν
ἁμαρτιῶν τὰ...
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ἐγὼ δὲ ἔζων χωρὶς νόμου ποτέ : this is
ideal biography. There is not really a period in life to which one can
look back as the happy time when he had no conscience; the lost
paradise in the infancy of...
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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...
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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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(5) For I was alive without the (q) law once: but when the commandment
(r) came, sin revived, and I (s) died.
(5) He sets himself before us as an example, in whom all men may
behold, first what they a...
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I lived some time without the law; i.e. without the knowledge of the
law. This some understand St. Paul in the time of his childhood,
before he came to the knowledge of what was forbidden by any law....
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This whole exposition is introduced by the objection which consists in
identifying the law with sin. But it must not be thought that the
apostle's aim is really to exonerate the law from such a suspic...
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a. “ _And I was alive when I was formerly without law; but when the
commandment came, sin revived, and I died;_ ”
Calvin well expresses the rhythm of these verses: “The death of sin
is the life of ma...
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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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What shall we say then? Is the law sin? God forbid. Nay, I had not
known sin, but by the law: for I had not known lust, except the law
had said, Thou shalt not covet. (8) But sin, taking occasion by t...
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9._For I was alive, etc. _He means to intimate that there had been a
time when sin was dead to him or in him. But he is not to be
understood as though he had been without law at any time, but this
wor...
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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 WAS ALIVE WITHOUT THE LAW ONCE,.... The apostle says this, not
in the person of Adam, as some have thought; who lived indeed, in a
state of innocence, a perfectly holy and righteous life, but no...
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For I was alive without the law once: but when the commandment came,
sin revived, and I died.
Ver. 9. _For I was alive_] As being without sense of sin, and
conscience of duty.
_ Sin revived_] _sc._...
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_For I was alive_ In my own conceit; _without the law_ Without the
proper knowledge of its spirituality, extent, and obligation. I
apprehended myself to be righteous, and in the way to life eternal;
_...
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THE PURPOSE OF THE LAW AND ITS EFFECT.
The object of the Law:...
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FOR I WAS ALIVE WITHOUT THE LAW ONCE; BUT WHEN THE COMMANDMENT CAME,
SIN REVIVED AND I DIED....
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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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7-12 IS THE LAW GOOD OR BAD?
Is it a blessing or a curse?
What did the law do?
1. Pointed out sinful behavior 7
2. Made us aware of sin in our lives 8
3. Makes us aware of the death penalty 9
4....
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AND. WAS ALIVE APART FROM THE LAW ONCE: BUT WHEN THE COMMANDMENT CAME,
SIN REVIVED, AND. DIED; "I WAS ALIVE APART FROM THE LAW ONCE" -but if
Calvinism is true (Total Hereditary Depravity, i.e. one is...
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7-13 There is no way of coming to that knowledge of sin, which is
necessary to repentance, and therefore to peace and pardon, but by
trying our hearts and lives by the law. In his own case the apostl...
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FOR I WAS ALIVE WITHOUT THE LAW ONCE: q.d. Take me, if you please, for
an instance. Before I knew the law aright, and understood the Divine
and spiritual meaning of it, or whilst the law stood afar of...
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And I was alive apart from the law once: but when the commandment
came, sin revived, and I died;...
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Origen Against Celsus Book III
For wickedness must necessarily first exist in men. As Paul also says,
"When the commandment came, sin revived, and I died."[192]
Methodius From the Discourse on the R...
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Romans 7:9 G1161 I G1473 alive G2198 (G5707) once G4218 without G5565
law G3551 but G1161 commandment...
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‘And I was alive apart from the law once, but when the commandment
came, sin revived, and I died,'
This was what had happened to Paul, while he was still Saul. He had
been striving with all his might...
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PAUL'S INITIAL EXPERIENCE OF THE ‘SLAYING' POWER OF THE LAW
(7:7-13).
Having demonstrated that much of what sin does in chapter 6, the Law
does in Romans 7:1 (see introduction to chapter 7 above), Pau...
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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 7:9. NOW I WAS ALIVE WITHOUT THE LAW ONCE. ‘For' is
incorrect; this clause continues the description of the state without
the law. ‘Alive' has been explained as meaning: (1.) I seemed to
myself...
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I WAS ALIVE
(εζων). Imperfect active. Apparently, "the lost paradise in the
infancy of men" (Denney), before the conscience awoke and moral
responsibility came, "a seeming life" (Shedd).SIN REVIVED...
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WHEN THE COMMANDMENT
The passage (Romans 7:7) is autobiographical. Paul's religious
experience was in three strongly marked phases:
(1) He was a godly Jew under the law. That the passage does not re...
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Romans 7:9
The Place of the Law in the Salvation of Sinners.
We have here:
I. A life which a man enjoys in and of himself before he knows God. "I
was alive without the law once." This is the natural...
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Romans 7:7
A Chapter in Saul's Early Life.
I. St. Paul repels with energy the idea that there can be anything
essentially bad, unholy, or immoral about the blessed law of God
itself. On the contrary,...
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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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I MYSELF WAS ONCE ALIVE. _Gifford_ says: "There is a deep tragic
pathos in the brief and simple statement; it seems to point to some
definite period full of painful recollections." This could be the t...
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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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_What shall we say then?_
Is the law sin? God forbid.
THE LAW
I. Its nature--
1. Moral.
2. Spiritual.
3. Exemplified by the particular commandment quoted.
II. Its use--
1. To describe the natu...
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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 7:7.—I had not known the specific character and peculiar
nature of lust. The law of God proclaims to man _non concupisces_, and
thus he learns that concupiscence is sin. The m...
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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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Galatians 2:19; Galatians 3:10; James 2:10; James 2:11; Luke 10:25;...
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I was alive - once [ε ζ ω ν π ο τ ε]. Referring to the time of
childlike innocence previous to the stimulus imparted to the inactive
principle of sin by the coming of the law; when the moral self -
de...
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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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And I was once alive without the law — Without the close application
of it. I had much life, wisdom, virtue, strength: so I thought. But
when the commandment — That is, the law, a part put for the who...
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As if the apostle had said, "Formerly, when. lived. Pharisee, and had
the law in my hand, but did not consider in my heart what exactness
and perfection it required in my life,. contented myself with...