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 law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of sin which is in my members. O wretched man that I am! who shall deliver me from the body of this death? "[84]
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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...
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,...
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...
DELIGHT. Greek. _sunedomai._ Only here. Compare Psalms 1:2; Psalms 112:1; Psalms 119:35 (Septuagint) INWARD. Greek. _eso_. Adverb used as Adjective. Compare...
_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...
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...
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...
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...
ΣΥΝΉΔΟΜΑΙ _praes. ind. med. (dep.)_ (G4913) ликовать с кем-л., радостно соглашаться. ΈΣ (G2080) внутренний....
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...
_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...
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...
__ 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...
(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....
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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._...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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....
_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...
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...
FOR I DELIGHT IN THE LAW OF GOD AFTER THE INWARD MAN;...
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...
FOR. DELIGHT IN THE LAW OF GOD AFTER THE INWARD MAN: 'There are those who find this difficult to believe of an unforgiven man. But is it really so difficult? Haven't we all experienced strong traces...
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...
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...
For I delight in the law of God after the inward man :...
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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,...
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 7:22. 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...
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...
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...
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 7:22 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...
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...
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....
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 7:21 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 7:13 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 7:7 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 3:4; 2 Corinthians 4:16; Colossians 3:9; Ephesians 3:16;...
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...
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...
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....
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...