Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible
Romans 7:23
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.
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.
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...
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
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...
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...
THE NEW ALLEGIANCE (Romans 7:1-6)...
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...
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...
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...
_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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
_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...
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...
__ 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...
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 ...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
“ _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._...
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...
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...
_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...
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...
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...
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...
_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...
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...
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....
The difficulty of the struggle and the plea for deliverance:...
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...
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)...
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...
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...
but I see a 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. [And such a state of conflict is unavoidable; f...
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]...
Romans 7:23 But G1161 see G991 (G5719) another G2087 law G3551 in G1722 my G3450 members G3196 against...
‘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,...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
SIN SIN (_ See Scofield) - (Romans 5:21). _...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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....
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...
_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...
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...
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...
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...
_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...
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....
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...
1 Peter 2:11; 1 Timothy 6:11; 1 Timothy 6:12; 2 Timothy 2:25;...
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...
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...
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...
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...