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Verse 17. _NOW THEN IT IS NO MORE I_] It is not that _I_ which
constitutes _reason_ and _conscience, but sin_-corrupt and sensual
inclinations, _that dwelleth in me_-that has the entire domination
ov...
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IT IS NO MORE I THAT DO IT - This is evidently figurative language,
for it is really the man that sins when evil is committed. But the
apostle makes a distinction between sin and what he intends by th...
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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...
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AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF THE MAN UNDER LAW. What it means to be in bondage to
the old letter (6), the apostle will show from his own experience.
That the following description belongs to Paul's legal past app...
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THE NEW ALLEGIANCE (Romans 7:1-6)...
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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...
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NOW THEN. But now.
NO MORE. no longer. Greek. _ouketi._
SIN... ME. the indwelling sin (App-128.)
DWELLETH. Greek. _oikeo_. Here, verses: Rom 18:20. Romans 8:9, Rom
8:11 -. 1 Corinthians 3:16;...
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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...
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_Now_ i.e. IN THIS STATE OF THE CASE.
_it is no more I_ The Gr. is lit. BUT NOW NO LONGER I DO IT, &c. The
"_no longer_" is noteworthy, as implying (in the natural and common
meaning of the words) a _...
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Romans 7:7-25. The new life is effective to achieve righteousness in
each man, as the law could not do.
(7) Not that the law is itself sin, but it awakes the consciousness of
sin, as, for instance, co...
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ΝΥΝῚ ΔῈ. But, in this case, this being so.
ΟΥ̓ΚΈΤΙ ἘΓῺ. It is, when this point is reached, no longer
my true self that is producing these effects, but the indwelling and
alien tyrant....
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ΟΎΚΈΤΙ (G3765) больше не.
ΟΙΚΟΎΣΑ _praes. act. part. от_ ΟΊΚΈΩ (G3611)
обитать....
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SIN THAT DWELLETH IN ME— That is, _reigneth in me._ So God is said
to _dwell_ among the Israelites, as their king and governor; Exodus
25:8; Exodus 29:45.Numbers 35:34. _Dwell,_ here and...
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_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...
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Now then it is no more I that do it, but sin that dwelleth in me.
NOW THEN IT IS NO MORE I (MY RENEWED SELF) THAT DO IT ('THAT WORK
IT'), BUT SIN THAT DWELLETH IN ME - that principle of sin that st...
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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...
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7:17 do (a-9) See Note, ver. 15....
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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 ...
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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...
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This, then, appears to be the true explanation of the difficulty.
There is really a dualism in the soul. I am not to be identified with
that lower self which is enthralled by sin....
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(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....
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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...
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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...
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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...
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Νυνὶ δὲ οὐκέτι ἐγὼ κατεργάζομαι
αὐτό. ἐγὼ is the true I, and emphatic. As things are, in
view of the facts just explained, it is not the true self which is
responsible for this line of conduct, but th...
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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...
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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...
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Now then it is no more I that do it, but (z) sin that dwelleth in me.
(z) That natural corruption, which adheres strongly even to those that
are regenerated, and is not completely gone....
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Now then it is no more I that do it: To will good is present with me.
These expressions all shew that he speaks of temptations that affect
the sense only, the imagination, or the members of the body,...
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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...
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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...
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“ _If then I do that which I would not, I consent with the law that
it is good. And now it is no more I that perform it, but sin that
dwelleth in me._ ”
These two verses draw the conclusion from the...
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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...
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17._Now it is no more I who do it_, _etc. _This is not the pleading of
one excusing himself, as though he was blameless, as the case is with
many triflers who think that they have a sufficient defense...
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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...
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NOW THEN, IT IS NO MORE I THAT DO IT,.... This is another inference,
deduced from what is before said, that since he did not approve, but
hated what he did, and willed the contrary, it was not he as
s...
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Now then it is no more I that do it, but sin that dwelleth in me.
Ver. 17. _It is no more I_] Mr Bradford, martyr, in a certain letter
thus comforteth his friend: At this present, my dear heart in th...
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_If then I do that which I would not_, &c. In willing not to do it, I
do so far, though to my own condemnation, _consent to the law_, and
bear my testimony to it _that it is good_ And do indeed desire...
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NO MORE I-BUT SIN; it is not my habitual inclination, my prevailing
desire, to break the law. I do not love transgression, but abhor it;
yet in many things I offend, and in all come short of perfect
o...
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The practical effect of this teaching:...
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NOW, THEN, IT IS NO MORE I THAT DO IT, BUT SIN THAT DWELLETH IN ME.
To make sure that every misunderstanding is definitely removed, Paul
here, in speaking of the struggle of the regenerated for
sancti...
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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...
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SO NOW IT IS NO MORE. THAT DO IT, BUT SIN WHICH DWELLETH IN ME. "NO
MORE. THAT DO IT" -clearly Paul isn't saying that he is not
responsible for his sins, or that he can't help himself. (Romans 6:12;
R...
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14-17 Compared with the holy rule of conduct in the law of God, the
apostle found himself so very far short of perfection, that he seemed
to be carnal; like a man who is sold against his will to a ha...
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IT IS NO MORE I THAT DO IT; i.e. it is not I as spiritual or renewed,
it is not my whole self, BUT it is SIN THAT DWELLETH IN ME, that
inhabits in me as a troublesome inmate, that I cannot get rid of,...
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Clement of Alexandria Stromata Book III
Prius enim dixit: "Sed inhabitarts in me peccatum; "propter quod
consentaneum erat dicere illud: "Non habitat in came mea bonum."[127]
Tertullian On the Resur...
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Romans 7:17 But G1161 now G3570 longer G3765 I G1473 do G2716 (G5736)
it G846 but G235 sin...
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‘So now it is no more I who do it, but sin which dwells in me.'
But why, says Paul, do I sometimes behave like this? What explanation
can there be? His reply is that it is because what he does is not...
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Romans 7:17. HOW THEN, or, ‘but now,' as the case stands.
IT IS NO LONGER I THAT PERFORM IT, _i.e.,_ ‘what I wish not.' I am
a slave under sin, what ‘I perform, I know not' (Romans 7:16). Both
‘now'...
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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...
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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...
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SO NOW
(νυν δε). A logical contrast, "as the case really stands."BUT SIN
THAT DWELLETH IN ME
(αλλ' η ενοικουσα εν εμο αμαρτια). "But the
dwelling in me sin." Not my true self, my higher personali...
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SIN
SIN
(_ See Scofield) - (Romans 5:21). _...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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SO I AM NOT REALLY THE ONE. It is not "Paul the free-man" who sins,
but "Paul the slave to sin." The sin that lives in us: (1) interferes
with the good we would like to do; (2) like some evil spirit,...
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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...
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ROMANS—NOTE ON ROMANS 7:17 Paul emphasizes the power of sin.
⇐ ⇔...
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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...
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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...
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_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...
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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....
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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...
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2 Corinthians 8:12; James 4:5; James 4:6; Philippians 3:8; Philippia
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Now - no more [ν υ ν ι - ο υ κ ε τ ι]. Not temporal,
pointing back to a time when it was otherwise, but logical, pointing
to an inference. After this statement you can no more maintain that,
etc.
I ...
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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...
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It is no more I that can properly be said to do it, but rather sin
that dwelleth in me — That makes, as it were, another person, and
tyrannizes over me....