Cambridge Greek Testament Commentary

Romans 7:21

ἄρα sums up the reiterated positions of Romans 7:15-20.

τὸν νόμον = this law of my condition: a new sense of the word involving some confusion of language. The law of his condition is that there are two laws at once in his complex nature, one a law of his mind, i.e. the law of GOD accepted by his mind, one a law intruded upon his ‘members’ by sin, embodying the law of sin. It is just possible however that τὸν νόμον = the law of GOD (cf. ἡ ὀργή); and tr. ‘I find as regards the Law, that when I will to do the good’ (i.e. the bidding of this law) etc. This is strained, but diminishes the confusion. Cf. S. H.

τὸ καλὸν. The ideally true and right, as referred to a standard: ἀγαθόν = that which is good, as judged by effects.

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Romans 7:21

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