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, consequently). The following cycle really contains the full picture of man's state under the law. Like the others, it first expresses the general thesis, Romans 7:21, parallel to Romans 7:18; Romans 7:14; then the proof from fact, Romans 7:22-23 as above; and finally, the conclusion, Romans 7:24-25, which, while reproducing that of the other cycles, goes beyond it and forms the transition to the description of the new state which has replaced the former in the regenerate (chap. 8).

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