Cambridge Greek Testament Commentary
Romans 7:2
κατήργηται�. Cf. Galatians 5:4 : has been made, so to speak, non-existent as regards that law and so freed from it.
κατήργηται�. Cf. Galatians 5:4 : has been made, so to speak, non-existent as regards that law and so freed from it.
Verse Romans 7:2. _FOR THE WOMAN WHICH HATH A HUSBAND_] The apostle illustrates his meaning by a familiar instance. A married woman is bound to her husband while he lives; but when her husband is dead...
FOR THE WOMAN - This verse is a specific illustration of the general principle in Romans 7:1, that death dissolves those connections and relations which make law binding in life. It is a simple illust...
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...
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...
THE NEW ALLEGIANCE (Romans 7:1-6)...
WHICH HATH, &C. Greek. _hupandros._ Only here. HUSBAND. App-123. SO LONG, &C. Literally while living. IF. App-118. BE DEAD. should have died. LOOSED. free. Greek. _katargeo._ See Romans 3:3. FRO...
_to her husband so long_, &c]. Lit. TO THE LIVING HUSBAND. So it should be rendered; q. d., "to the present, not to a past or future, husband." _she is loosed_ Lit. SHE HAS BEEN CANCELLED FROM, &c. T...
ΫΠΑΝΔΡΟΣ (G5220) под мужем (в подчинении у мужа), замужем. Это слово само по себе может содержать значение подчиненности (Barrett), ΖΏΝΤΙ _praes. act. part. (adj.) от_ ΖΆΩ (G2198) жить; здесь: "живой...
FOR THE WOMAN, &C.— St. Paul goes on to explain his meaning by a familiar instance. He chooses to set the Jew in a more honourable light while under the law, than he does the Gentiles while under thei...
_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...
For the woman which hath an husband is bound by the law to her husband so long as he liveth; but if the husband be dead, she is loosed from the law of her husband. FOR THE WOMAN WHICH HATH AN HUSB...
__ 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...
LOOSED] RV 'discharged': cp. Romans 7:6. LAW OF _her_ HUSBAND] i.e. the marriage law....
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...
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...
FOR THE WOMAN WHICH HATH AN HUSBAND. — The illustration is not quite exact. The Law is here represented by the husband, but the Apostle does not mean to say that the Law dies to the Christian, but the...
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...
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...
f. An illustration of the principle. It is the only illustration in which death liberates a person who yet remains alive and can enter into new relations. Of course there is an inexactness, for in the...
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...
“ _Or are ye ignorant, brethren (for I speak to them that know the law), that the law hath dominion over a man for as long time as he liveth? For the married woman is bound by the law to her living hu...
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...
2._For a woman subject to a man, etc. _He brings a similitude, by which he proves, that we are so loosed from the law, that it does not any longer, properly and by its own right, retain over us any au...
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 THE WOMAN WHICH HATH AN HUSBAND,.... The former general rule is here illustrated by a particular instance and example in the law of marriage; a woman that is married to a man, IS BOUND BY THE LAW...
For the woman which hath an husband is bound by the law to _her_ husband so long as he liveth; but if the husband be dead, she is loosed from the law of _her_ husband. Ver. 2. _She is loosed, &c._] A...
_Know ye not, brethren_ The apostle, having shown that justified and regenerated persons are free from the dominion of sin, shows here that they are also free from the yoke of the Mosaic law, it being...
LOOSED FROM THE LAW OF HER HUSBAND; from the law which, so long as he lived, bound him to her as her husband, and thus bound her to him....
FOR THE WOMAN WHICH HATH AN HUSBAND IS BOUND BY THE LAW TO HER HUSBAND SO LONG AS HE LIVETH; BUT IF THE HUSBAND BE DEAD, SHE IS LOOSED FROM THE LAW OF HER HUSBAND....
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...
1-4 DEAD TO THE LAW - MARRIED TO CHRIST Illustration of civil marriage "until death" What died? You died to the law. You were raised from the dead in baptism. Therefore: We can now be married to C...
FOR THE WOMAN THAT HATH. HUSBAND IS BOUND BY LAW TO THE HUSBAND WHILE HE LIVETH; BUT IF THE HUSBAND DIE, SHE IS DISCHARGED FROM THE LAW OF THE HUSBAND. 'Bound by law' -stands bound (Robertson p. 366...
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...
He here exemplifies and illustrates the foregoing assertion. THE WOMAN IS BOUND BY THE LAW TO HER HUSBAND SO LONG AS HE LIVETH: see a parallel place, 1 CORINTHIANS 7:39. This is the general rule, yet...
For the woman that hath a husband is bound by law to the husband while he liveth; but if the husband die, she is discharged from the law of the husband. [If, on the one hand, ye are, as I have shown,...
Tertullian On Monogamy If, however, the husband shall have died, she has been freed from (his) law, (so) that she is not an adulteress if made (wife) to another husband."[94] The Second Epistle of P...
Romans 7:2 For G1063 woman G1135 husband G5220 bound G1210 (G5769) law G3551 husband G435 lives G2198 ...
‘For the woman who has a husband is bound by law to the husband while he lives, but if the husband die, she is discharged from the law of the husband. So then if, while the husband lives, she be joine...
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...
WHAT THEN OF THE LAW? IS THE LAW GOOD OR BAD? AND HOW DOES THE CHRISTIAN STAND IN RELATION TO THE LAW. HOW CAN IT BE FULFILLED? (7:1-8:4). Whereas chapter 6 has concentrated on our deliverance from th...
Romans 7:2. FOR THE MARRIED WOMAN. This is an example of the principle of Romans 7:1. ‘Married' is more fully explained as ‘subject to a husband.' IS BOUND BY THE LAW. The permanent binding is indica...
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...
THE WIFE THAT HATH A HUSBAND (η υπανδρος γυνη). Late word, under (in subjection to) a husband. Here only in N.T.IS BOUND (δεδετα). Perfect passive indicative, stands bound.BY LAW (νομω). Instru...
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...
A MARRIED WOMAN. The Jews believed that the Law of Moses formed a perpetual obligation. Paul uses marriage to teach them this lesson. BUT IF HE DIES. The wife was united to her husband during his life...
_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...
ROMANS—NOTE ON ROMANS 7:1 In this entire chapter, LAW refers to the Mosaic law given at Mount Sinai. THOSE WHO KNOW THE LAW includes both Jews and Gentiles who are familiar with the OT. Verse...
_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...
1 Corinthians 7:39; 1 Corinthians 7:4; Genesis 2:23; Genesis 2:24;...
That hath a husband [υ π α ν δ ρ ο ς]. Lit., under or subject to a husband. The illustration is selected to bring forward the union with Christ after the release from the law, as analogous to a new ma...
She is freed from the law of her husband — From that law which gave him a peculiar property in her....
Here the apostle doth exemplify and illustrate the foregoing assertion, namely, That believers are freed from the law, by. similitude taken from the law of marriage: As death freeth husband and wife f...