Romans 7:22

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 are those also of the soul. Cp. 1 Corinthians 13:6, where render, "rejoiceth withthe Truth."

the inward man The regenerate Self. Not that the phrase necessarilymeans the regenerate self, as does the phrase "the newman" (Ephesians 2:10; Ephesians 4:24). In itself it may mean (as Meyer holds) no more than "the rational and moral element in human nature." But surely this does not, according to St Paul, "delight" with the delight of the will"with the Law," until grace has rectified its fall. See Colossians 1:21, where "the mind" is the seat of" enmity." The phrase in this context therefore points to the regenerate state; the self as it is by grace, distinguished from "the flesh." A fit illustration of this verse is Psalms 119, where the inspired Saint indeed "delights with," and in, the Law, and yet continually makes confession and entreaty as a sinner.