Cambridge Greek Testament Commentary
Romans 7:24-25
24, 25. A parenthetic exclamation, a cry for help, and the answer.
24, 25. A parenthetic exclamation, a cry for help, and the answer.
Verse Romans 7:24. _O WRETCHED MAN THAT I AM_, c.] This affecting account is finished more impressively by the _groans_ of the _wounded_ captive. Having long maintained a useless conflict against inn...
O WRETCHED MAN THAT I AM! - The feeling implied by this lamentation is the result of this painful conflict; and this frequent subjection to sinful propensities. The effect of this conflict is, (1) To...
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...
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...
O. Omit. This exclamation is an instance of Figure of speech _Ecphonesis._ App-6. WRETCHED. Greek. _talaiporos._ Only here and Revelation 3:17. Compare _talaiporia,_ misery, Romans 3:16; James 5:1. an...
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...
_O wretched man_, &c. Lit. MISERABLE MAN [AM] I. The adjective indicates a state of _suffering;_the _pain_of the inner conflict as felt by the regenerate "mind [38]." [38] In Lord Selborne's _Book of...
ΤΑΛΑΊΠΩΡΟΣ (G5005) несчастный, бедный, терзаемый, печальный. Это выражение отчаяния и осуждения, может также описывать состояние человека, разрывавмого между двумя возможностями (TLNT; Dunn; CCFJ, 4:1...
DISCOURSE: 1855 PAUL’S SPIRITUAL CONFLICTS Romans 7:24. _O wretched man that I am! who shall deliver me from the body of this death? I thank God through Jesus Christ our Lord_. THE Epistle to the Rom...
WHO SHALL DELIVER ME? &C.— It has been thought by some, that in this phrase there is an allusion to a cruelty, which is said to have been practised by some tyrants, on miserable captives who fell into...
_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...
O wretched man that I am! who shall deliver me from the body of this death? O WRETCHED MAN THAT I AM! WHO SHALL DELIVER ME FROM THE BODY OF THIS DEATH? The apostle speaks of the "body" here with re...
__ 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 BODY OF THIS DEATH] Sin and death go together. The body which is under the power of sin is also given over to death....
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....
So this intestine struggle goes on unceasingly and reaches no decision, till at last the unhappy man cries out, almost in despair, “Who shall deliver me from the body of this death?” Who, that is, wil...
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...
ταλαίπωρος ἐγὼ ἄνθρωπος · τίς με ῥύσεται; “a wail of anguish and a cry for help”. The words are not those of the Apostle's heart as he writes; they are the words which he knows are wrung from the hear...
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...
(14) O (d) wretched man that I am! who shall deliver me from the body of this death? (14) It is a miserable thing to be yet in part subject to sin, which of its own nature makes us guilty of death: b...
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...
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...
“ _O wretched man that I am! who shall deliver me from the body of this death? I thank God through Jesus Christ our Lord! So then with the mind I myself serve the law of God; but with the flesh the la...
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...
24._Miserable_, _etc. _He closes his argument with a vehement exclamation, by which he teaches us that we are not only to struggle with our flesh, but also with continual groaning to bewail within our...
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...
O WRETCHED MAN THAT I AM,.... Not as considered in Christ, for as such he was a most happy man, being blessed with all spiritual blessings, and secure from all condemnation and wrath; nor with respect...
O wretched man that I am! who shall deliver me from the body of this death? Ver. 24. _O wretched man_] We must discontentedly be contented to be exercised with sin while we are here. It is so bred in...
_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...
WRETCHED MAN; on account of remaining proneness to sin. WHO SHALL DELIVER ME; not the law, not my own efforts, or my abhorrence of myself on account of disobedience-not any expedients which ever have...
O WRETCHED MAN THAT I AM! WHO SHALL DELIVER ME FROM THE BODY OF THIS DEATH?...
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...
THE BODY OF THIS DEATH: Or, this body of death...
__ Romans 7:24 Wretched man that. am! who shall deliver me out of the body of this death? "Wretched man" -5005. talaiporos tal-ah'-ee-po-ros; from the base of 5007 and. derivative of the base of 3984;...
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...
O WRETCHED MAN THAT I AM! The word signifies one wearied out with continual combats. WHO SHALL DELIVER ME? It is not the voice of one desponding or doubting, but of one breathing and panting after del...
Wretched man that I am! who shall deliver me out of the body of this death?...
Irenaeus Against Heresies Book III showing that the "good thing" of our salvation is not from us, but from God. And again: "Wretched man that I am, who shall deliver me from the body of this death? ...
Romans 7:24 wretched G5005 man G444 am G1473 Who G5101 deliver G4506 (G5695) me G3165 from G1537 this...
DELIVERANCE IS AT HAND (7:24-8:2). ‘Wretched man that I am! Who will deliver me out of the body of this death?' The thought that he has not wholly and continually been able to overcome sin caused Pau...
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...
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...
Romans 7:24. O WRETCHED MAN THAT I AM! Some would inclose this verse and the first clause of Romans 7:25 in parenthesis; but this is unnecessary. The word ‘wretched' implies ‘exhausted by hard labor;'...
O WRETCHED MAN THAT I AM (ταλαιπωρος εγω ανθρωπος). "Wretched man I." Old adjective from τλαω, to bear, and πωρος, a callus. In N.T. only here and Revelation 3:17. "A heart-rending cry from the dep...
FROM THE BODY Or, out of this body of death. (Romans 8:11); (1 Corinthians 15:51); (1 Corinthians 15:52); ...
Romans 7:24 I. The consciousness of sin is so far a universal fact of human nature, that if any one of us is without it, it is because of some disease and defect in his own mind. The conviction of sin...
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 7:14 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 7:1. 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...
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...
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...
WHAT AN UNHAPPY MAN I AM! This is the despair of natural man, held prisoner by sin, and unable to help himself. [The Christian also feels this constant struggle, but has hope in Christ.] WHO WILL RESC...
_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...
_O wretched man that I am! who shall deliver me from the body of this death?_ SOUL DESPOTISM I. The soul’s oppressive despot. “The body of this death.” What is meant by this? Corrupt animalism. What...
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...
ROMANS—NOTE ON ROMANS 7:24 WHO WILL DELIVER ME? The living presence of JESUS CHRIST is the answer to the problem of sin....
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 Kings 8:38; 2 Corinthians 1:8; 2 Corinthians 12:7; 2 Timothy 4:18;...
Wretched [τ α λ α ι π ω ρ ο ς]. Originally, wretched through the exhaustion of hard labor. Who [τ ι ς]. Referring to a personal deliverer. Body of this death [τ ο υ σ ω μ α τ ο ς τ ο υ θ α ν α τ ο υ...
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...
Wretched man that I am — The struggle is now come to the height; and the man, finding there is no help in himself, begins almost unawares to pray, Who shall deliver me? He then seeks and looks for del...
These words are. sad and sorrowful complaint of the present and too great prevalency of indwelliung sin and unsubdued corruption; and in them observe, 1. The person complaining, St. Paul. 2. The mat...