Romans 7:1
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.... [ Continue Reading ]
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.... [ Continue Reading ]
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 (Romans 7:7) he shows that the Law is divine in its character and beneficent in its work, but unable to free a man from the pow... [ Continue Reading ]
LOOSED] RV 'discharged': cp. Romans 7:6. LAW OF _her_ HUSBAND] i.e. the marriage law.... [ Continue Reading ]
BY THE BODY OF CHRIST] i.e. through your union with Christ crucified.... [ Continue Reading ]
MOTIONS OF SINS] RV 'sinful passions.' 'Passions' = passive feelings, e.g. hunger; sinful, when they control the will. BY THE LAW] cp. Romans 7:7; Romans 5:20, and on Romans 6:14.... [ Continue Reading ]
DELIVERED] RV 'discharged.' THAT BEING DEAD] RV 'having died to that,' i.e. to the Law. SPIRIT] RV 'the spirit.' In the new state, the spiritual part of the man has been emancipated, and has become the predominant part of him. He lives, as it were, in a spiritual world, and has become a spiritual pe... [ Continue Reading ]
LUST] RV 'coveting.' St. Paul instances the most searching and comprehensive commandment of the second table.... [ Continue Reading ]
TAKING OCCASION] RV 'finding occasion.' BY THE COMMANDMENT, etc.] RV 'wrought in me through the commandment all manner of coveting.' WITHOUT] RV 'apart from.'... [ Continue Reading ]
I WAS ALIVE] 'I' emphatic 10, _Ordained_] RV omits.... [ Continue Reading ]
DECEIVED] RV 'beguiled': cp. Genesis 3:13. 'All sin is committed under a deception, momentary at least, as to (1) the satisfaction to be found in it, (2) the excuse to be made for it, (3) the probability of its punishment' (Vaughan).... [ Continue Reading ]
BUT SIN] Understand 'became death unto me.' WORKING] RV 'by working.' 14-25. St. Paul, taking his own case as typical, shows that spiritual death (Romans 7:11) is due, not to the Law, nor to the free choice of his true self, which approves the Law (vv. 14-16, 22), but to the power of sin within (Ro... [ Continue Reading ]
ALLOW] RV 'know.'... [ Continue Reading ]
THE BODY OF THIS DEATH] Sin and death go together. The body which is under the power of sin is also given over to death.... [ Continue Reading ]