Clement of Alexandria Stromata Book IV
yet "without the law sin was dead,"[9]
Tertullian On Monogamy
For when we were in the flesh, the passions of sin, which (passions) used to be efficiently caused through the law, (wrought) in our members unto the bearing of fruit to death; but now we have been emancipated from the law, being dead (to that) in which we used to be held,[95]
Verse Romans 7:6. _BUT NOW WE ARE DELIVERED FROM THE LAW_] We, who have believed in Christ Jesus, are delivered from that yoke by which we were bound, which sentenced every transgressor to _perdition_...
BUT NOW - Under the gospel. This verse states the consequences of the gospel, in distinction from the effects of the Law. The way in which this is accomplished, the apostle illustrates more at length...
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...
ESPOUSAL TO CHRIST. Paul returns to his paradox about Law and Grace (Romans 6:14 f.) and illustrates it by marriage, _Christ_ now standing for _Grace._ ROMANS 7:1. Wedlock binds while the husband li...
THE NEW ALLEGIANCE (Romans 7:1-6)...
You are bound to know, brothers--for I speak to men who know what law means--that the law has authority over a man only for the duration of his life. Thus, a married woman remains bound by law to her...
DELIVERED. Greek. _katargeo._ See Romans 7:2. THAT... HELD. having died (to that) in which we were held. WHEREIN. in (App-104.) which. THAT. so that. SERVE. App-190. Compare Romans 6:6. NEWNESS. S...
_now_ AS THE FACT STANDS. _are delivered_ Lit., and better, WERE DELIVERED; by our Representative's death ideally, and actually through faith in Him. _delivered_ Lit. CANCELLED, ABOLISHED. This pecul...
ΚΑΤΗΡΓΉΘΗΜΕΝ� = ἐθανατώθημεν τῷ νόμῳ |[148] Romans 7:2. [148] | parallel to ἈΠΟΘΑΝΌΝΤΕΣ ἘΝ ὯΙ ΚΑΤΕΙΧΌΜΕΘΑ = being dead in or to that character in which we were held in a state of subjection; ἀποθανόν...
Romans 6:1 to Romans 7:6. The ethical bearing and standard of the new life in Christ. (1) Are we to conclude that the state of sin is to continue, as a provocative, so to speak, of the graciousness of...
ΚΑΤΗΡΓΉΘΗΜΕΝ _aor. ind. pass. от_ КАΤΑΡΓΈΩ (G2673) делать бездейственным (_см._ Romans 7:2). Значение с предлогом: "отделенный от" "освобожденный от" (Моо). ΆΠΟΘΑΝΌΝΤΕΣ _aor. act._ pari, от ΆΠΟΘΝΉΣΚΩ...
BUT NOW WE ARE DELIVERED, &C.— _But now,_—that is, under the Gospel. _Now_ is frequently used in this sense;—which should be well observed, as it may prove a key to many texts. However, here, as the A...
_TEXT_ Romans 7:1-6.Or are ye ignorant, brethren (for I speak to men who know the law), that the law hath dominion over a man for so long time as he liveth? Romans 7:2 For the woman that hath a husban...
But now we are delivered from the law, that being dead wherein we were held; that we should serve in newness of spirit, and not in the oldness of the letter. BUT NOW (SEE THE NOTES ON THE SAME EXPR...
__ 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...
7:6 from (f-6) See Note, Galatians 5:4 . serve (g-22) i.e. serve as bondmen....
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 th...
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...
THAT BEING DEAD. — Our translators seem to have had a false reading here, which is not found in any MS., but arose from an error of Beza and Erasmus in interpreting a comment of Chrysostom’s. The true...
VII. (1-6) The Apostle takes up an idea to which he had alluded in Romans 7:14 of the preceding chapter, “Ye are not under the Law, but under grace;” and as he had worked out the conclusion of the dea...
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...
νυνὶ δὲ as things stand, considering what we are as Christians. κατηργήθημεν : _cf._ Romans 7:2. We are discharged from the law, by our death to that in which we were held. But what is this? Most expo...
For ἢ ἀγνοεῖτε, _cf._ Romans 6:3. Chap. 6 contains the argument which is illustrated in these verses, and the question alludes to it: not to accept the argument that the Christian is free from all leg...
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...
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 now we are delivered from the law, that (i) being dead (k) wherein we were (l) held; that we should serve in (m) newness of spirit, and not [in] the oldness of the (n) letter. (i) As if he said,...
_But now are loosed from the law of death, by which many understand from the law of Moses; so called, because it could not of itself give the life of grace, and occasioned death. Others expound these...
“ _But now we are delivered from the law, being dead to him under whom we were held; so that we serve in newness of spirit, and not in oldness of the letter._ ” The contrast between this _but now_ and...
FIFTEENTH PASSAGE (7:1-6). THE BELIEVER IS SET FREE FROM THE LAW AT THE SAME TIME THAT HE IS SET FREE FROM SIN. AGREEABLY to the proposition stated Romans 6:14: “Sin shall no more have dominion over y...
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? (2) For the woman which hath an husband is bound by the law to her husba...
_SPIRIT OR LETTER_ ‘That we should serve in newness of spirit, and not in the oldness of the letter.’ Romans 7:6 The man who lives by rule and by rote has not yet entered on the fullness of Christia...
6._But now we have been loosed from the law_, _etc. _He pursues the argument derived from the opposite effect of things, — “If the restraint of the law availed so little to bridle the flesh, that it b...
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 NOW WE ARE DELIVERED FROM THE LAW,.... From the ministration of it, by Moses; from it, as a covenant of works; from its rigorous exaction; from its curse and condemnation, all this by Christ; and...
But now we are delivered from the law, that being dead wherein we were held; that we should serve in newness of spirit, and not _in_ the oldness of the letter. Ver. 6. _Not in the oldness of the lett...
_For_ We ought now to be fruitful in good works, because we were formerly fruitful in evil: _when we were in the flesh_ Under the comparatively carnal dispensation of Moses, and in our natural corrupt...
WE; Christians, who have seen that by the works of the law we cannot be justified, have given up dependence on obedience to it, and are trusting in the atonement and righteousness of Christ for salvat...
BUT NOW WE ARE DELIVERED FROM THE LAW, THAT BEING DEAD WHEREIN WE WERE HELD, THAT WE SHOULD SERVE IN NEWNESS OF SPIRIT, AND NOT IN THE OLDNESS OF THE LETTER. Paul here introduces another illustration...
FREEDOM FROM THE LAW. 7:1-6...
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...
5-6 THEME: Sin in the flesh lead to death. We should serve in newness of the spirit. THEME : NOT: Oldness of the letter BUT: Newness of spirit DISCUSS : 1. What is the difference between "letter...
THAT BEING DEAD WHEREIN: Or, being dead to that...
BUT NOW WE HAVE BEEN DISCHARGED FROM THE LAW, HAVING DIED TO THAT WHEREIN WE WERE HELD; SO THAT WE SERVE IN NEWNESS OF THE SPIRIT, AND NOT IN OLDNESS OF THE LETTER. "WE HAVE BEEN DISCHARGED FROM THE L...
1-6 So long as a man continues under the law as a covenant, and seeks justification by his own obedience, he continues the slave of sin in some form. Nothing but the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus, c...
BUT NOW; i.e. being brought out of our fleshly state. WE ARE DELIVERED FROM THE LAW: see the notes on ROMANS 7:4. THAT BEING DEAD WHEREIN WE WERE HELD; the relative is not in the Greek text, but it is...
But now we have been discharged from the law, having died to that wherein we were held; so that we serve in newness of the spirit, and not in oldness of the letter. [These verses set forth the change...
Romans 7:6 But G1161 now G3570 delivered G2673 (G5681) from G575 law G3551 died G599 (G5631) ...
DELIVERANCE FROM UNDER THE LAW (7:1-6). Paul now declares that the Christian is delivered from the dominion of the Law because he has died to it in the death of Christ, and this in order that he might...
‘But now we have been discharged from the law, having died to that in which we were held; so as to serve in newness of the spirit, and not in oldness of the letter.' But now we (our ‘old man') have di...
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...
1. WE ARE FREED FROM IT (ROMANS 7:1); FOR, 2, ALTHOUGH IT IS HOLY, IT CANNOT MAKE SINNERS HOLY (ROMANS 7:7). 1. _Christians are freed from the Law._ This section might more properly form a part of th...
Romans 7:6. BUT NOW. Comp. chap. Romans 6:22. WE HAVE BEEN DELIVERED, or, ‘loosed,' the same word as in Romans 7:2. The annulling of the marriage relation is referred to in both cases. Here the exact...
BUT NOW (νυν δε). In the new condition.WHEREIN WE WERE HOLDEN (εν ω κατειχομεθα). Imperfect passive of κατεχω, picture of our former state (same verb in Romans 1:18).IN NEWNESS OF SPIRIT (εν και...
NEWNESS Compare (Romans 2:29); (2 Corinthians 3:6). "The letter" is a Paulinism for the law, as "spirit" in these passages is his word for the relationships and powers of new life in Christ Jesus. I...
Romans 7:1 "Law _versus_Grace.". Note: I. St. Paul's maxim that it is death which puts an end to all obligation created by statute law. Expositors have often remarked how fond this apostle was of le...
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...
WE ARE FREE FROM THE LAW. See ROMANS 6:2-4. BUT IN THE NEW WAY OF THE SPIRIT. This does not mean that the Jews under the Law did not worship God with spiritual worship. Yet the Law was directed toward...
_Know ye not, brethren … how that the law hath dominion over a man as long as he liveth?_ BELIEVERS NOT UNDER THE LAW AS A COVENANT OF WORKS I. All men are, naturally, under the law as a covenant of...
_But when we were in the flesh, the motions of sin, which were by the law, did work in our members to bring forth fruit unto death._ THE LAW AND SIN We often know that we are ill without knowing prec...
ROMANS—NOTE ON ROMANS 7:6 BUT NOW represents the new era of redemptive history. Christians now enjoy new life in the Spirit. ⇐...
_CRITICAL NOTES_ Romans 7:1.—The law is lord over the man. There is nothing shocking in the assertion that we are no longer under the law. You all know that the power of the law over a man ceases at...
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...
2 Corinthians 3:6; 2 Corinthians 5:17; Colossians 3:10; Ezekiel 11:19;...
We are delivered [κ α τ η ρ γ η θ η μ ε ν]. Rev., have been discharged, as the woman, ver. 2. See on ch. Romans 3:3. We were held. Lit., held down. See on ch. Romans 1:18....
Being dead to that whereby we were held — To our old husband, the law. That we might serve in newness of spirit — In a new, spiritual manner. And not in the oldness of the letter — Not in a bare liter...