McGarvey and Pendleton Commentaries
Romans 8:3
For what the law could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God, sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh and for sin, condemned sin in the flesh :
For what the law could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God, sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh and for sin, condemned sin in the flesh :
Verse Romans 8:3. _FOR WHAT THE LAW COULD NOT DO_] The law could not pardon; the law could not sanctify; the law could not dispense with its own requisitions; it is the rule of righteousness, and the...
FOR WHAT THE LAW COULD NOT DO - The Law of God, the moral law. It could not free from sin and condemnation. This the apostle had fully shown in Romans 7. IN THAT - Because. IT WAS WEAK - It was feeb...
CHAPTER 8 _ 1. In Christ; no Condemnation but Deliverance. (Romans 8:1 .)_ 2. Flesh and Spirit. (Romans 8:5 .) 3. The Body and the Spirit. (Romans 8:9 .) 4. Sons and Heirs of God. ...
THE NEW MAN IN CHRIST JESUS. Romans 8:1. Therefore now sin's captive escapes! No condemnation: Romans 1:18 to Romans 3:20; Romans 7:14 was _all_ co
There is, therefore, now no condemnation against those who are in Christ Jesus. For the law which comes from the Spirit and leads to life has in Christ Jesus set me free from the law which begets sin...
THE LIBERATION OF OUR HUMAN NATURE (Romans 8:1-4)...
WHAT, &C. Literally the impossible thing of the law. WEAK. impotent. Greek. _astheneo._ THROUGH. App-104.Romans 8:1. GOD. App-98. SENDING. having sent. App-174. Compare John 17:3. SON. App-108. L...
_what the law could not do_ Lit. THE IMPOSSIBLE OF THE LAW. What was this? The answer lies in Romans 8:4. The Law could not procure the "fulfilment" of its own "legal claim;" could not make its subjec...
ΓᾺΡ explains the method of liberation. ΤῸ�. For abstract ἀδυνασία: cf. τὸ γνήσιον, 2 Corinthians 8:8; τὸ δοκίμιον, James 1:3; 1 Peter 1:7 (?); τὸ χρηστὸν, supra...
The power is the indwelling spirit. (1) It follows from this examination of man’s state under law, that in our present state, as effected by GOD, those who are made one with Christ Jesus are not under...
ΑΔΎΝΑΤΟΣ (G102) невозможный, ΈΝ Ω (G1722; G3739 в котором, где; определяет момент, в котором закон бессилен, ΠΈΜΨΑΣ _aor. ind. act. от_ ΠΈΜΠΩ (G3992) посылать. Part, образа действия. _Aor._ указывае...
DISCOURSE: 1858 CHRIST THE AUTHOR OF OUR SANCTIFICATION Romans 8:3. _What the law could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, and for...
FOR WHAT THE LAW COULD NOT DO, &C.— _For this the law not being able to effect,_ &c. The _weakness,_ and as he there also calls it, the _unprofitableness_ of the law, is again taken notice of by the A...
_TEXT_ Romans 8:1-11. There is therefore now no condemnation to them that are in Christ Jesus. Romans 8:2 For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus made me free from the law of sin and of deat...
For what the law could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, and for sin, condemned sin in the flesh: FOR WHAT THE LAW COULD NOT DO...
__ 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...
8:3 sin, (d-30) i.e. as a sacrifice for sin. The same expression as in Hebrews 10:6 ,Hebrews 10:18 ,Hebrews 10:26 ; Hebrews 13:11...
THE NEW LIFE IN CHEIST IN RELATION TO GOD AND THE SPIRIT It was shown in Romans 5:12. that condemnation for the _guilt_ of sin is done away by justification through faith in Christ. The question as to...
LIKENESS OF, etc.] Christ took real 'flesh,' i.e. human nature, cp. John 1:14, but without its sinfulness, cp. Hebrews 4:15. FOR SIN] RV 'as an offering for sin.' CONDEMNED SIN IN THE FLESH] (1) Chris...
PAUL’S LETTER TO THE *ROMANS ROMANS _HILDA BRIGHT AND KEITH SIMONS_ CHAPTER 8 THE *HOLY SPIRIT AND GOD’S CHILDREN 8:1-39 FREEDOM FROM *SINFUL NATURE 8:1-4 V1 Therefore the people who belong to...
How was I freed? Thus. Precisely on that very point where the law of Moses showed its impotence — viz., in the attempt to get rid of sin, which it failed to do because of the counteracting influence o...
(1-11) A result is thus attained which the law of Moses could not accomplish, but which is accomplished in the gospel. The Christian is entirely freed from the law of sin and death, and from the conde...
CHAPTER 17 THE JUSTIFIED: THEIR LIFE BY THE HOLY SPIRIT Romans 8:1 THE sequence of the eighth chapter of the Epistle on the seventh is a study always interesting and fruitful. No one can read the tw...
He now explains how this was done. It was not done by the law: that is the first point. If τὸ ἀδύνατον is active (= “the inability” of the law) we must suppose that Paul meant to finish the sentence,...
The Spirit as the principle of righteousness and life....
NEW LIFE IN THE SPIRIT Romans 8:1 This may fitly be called the “chapter of the Holy Spirit.” The Apostle has carefully kept this great theme in the background till he has well prepared the ground, by...
The opening sentences of this chapter show a remarkable contrast with the previous chapter. From the fearful sense of condemnation we pass into the consciousness of no condemnation. Having shown the n...
(4) For what the law (f) could not do, in that it was weak through the (g) flesh, God sending his own Son in the likeness of (h) sinful flesh, and for (i) sin, (k) condemned sin in the flesh: (4) He d...
For what the law could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, not in sinful flesh, (because the Son of God could not sin) hath now done...
SEVENTEENTH PASSAGE (8:1-11). THE VICTORY OF THE HOLY SPIRIT OVER SIN AND DEATH....
VV. 1-4 describe the restoration of _holiness_ by the Holy Spirit; and Romans 8:5-11 show how from this destruction of _sin_ there follows that of _death._ Thus are destroyed the two last enemies of s...
THIRD SECTION (8:1-39). THE WORK OF THE HOLY SPIRIT IN THE JUSTIFIED BELIEVER. At the close of the preceding section, the apostle had contrasted the _oldness of letter_, a term by which he denotes the...
“ _For what the law could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh God sending His own Son in the likeness of a flesh of sin, and for sin, condemned sin in the flesh, that the righteousness presc...
There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit. (2) For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free fr...
The circumstances under which the epistle to the Romans was written gave occasion to the most thorough and comprehensive unfolding, not of the church, but of Christianity. No apostle had ever yet visi...
3._For what was impossible for the law_, _etc. _Now follows the polishing or the adorning of his proof, that the Lord has by his gratuitous mercy justified us in Christ; the very thing which it was im...
"There is therefore now no condemnation to those which are in Christ Jesus" (Chapter 8). He does not here speak of the efficacy of the blood in putting away sins (all-essential as that blood is, and t...
FOR WHAT THE LAW COULD NOT DO,.... This is not to be understood of "the law of the mind", in opposition to "the law of sin", which indeed is very feeble and impotent; man had a power originally of obe...
For what the law could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, and for sin, condemned sin in the flesh: Ver. 3. _It was weak through th...
_For what the law could not do_ Το γαρ αδυνατον του νομου, _what was impossible to the_ Mosaic _law_, whether moral or ceremonial; that is, that freedom from the guilt and power of sin, and from spiri...
WHAT THE LAW COULD NOT DO; it could not deliver those who had broken it from condemnation and ruin. It could neither lead them to obey it, nor to repent of having broken it; nor could it lessen their...
FOR WHAT THE LAW COULD NOT DO, IN THAT IT WAS WEAK THROUGH THE FLESH, GOD, SENDING HIS OWN SON IN THE LIKENESS OF SINFUL FLESH, AND FOR SIN, CONDEMNED SIN IN THE FLESH,...
THE LIFE IN THE SPIRIT. Walking after the Spirit:...
DELIVERANCE SIMPLY BY GOD'S TRUTH We come now, in the first four verses here, to the deliverance itself. Is this to be by means of experience? A mere glance at the verses will show us it is decidedly...
Now - present tense no condemnation - conditional walk- multiple choice a] after Spirit b] after flesh 2 Two laws - Spirit of life, Sin and death 3 The law - (of sin and death) weak in the flesh Go...
FOR SIN: Or, by a sacrifice for sin...
__ Romans 8:3 For what the law could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God, sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh and for sin, condemned sin in the flesh: "the law could not...
1-9 Believers may be chastened of the Lord, but will not be condemned with the world. By their union with Christ through faith, they are thus secured. What is the principle of their walk; the flesh o...
In this verse is a further proof of the main proposition in ROMANS 8:1. There are two things in sin that may endanger us as to condemnation, the power and the guilt of it. As to the freeing us from th...
Irenaeus Against Heresies Book III looking forward to the time when he shall become like Him who died for him, for He, too, "was made in the likeness of sinful flesh,"[384] Tertullian Against Marcio...
Romans 8:3 For G1063 law G3551 do G102 in G1722 that G3739 weak G770 (G5707) through G1223 flesh...
‘For what the law could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God, sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh and for sin, condemned sin in the flesh,' Once again we learn of the wea...
Romans 8:3. FOR WHAT THE LAW COULD NOT DO; lit, ‘the impossible (thing) of the law.' The Mosaic law is certainly meant. What was impossible for the law to do, God did, _i.e._, condemned sin, etc. This...
3. _THE LIFE IN THE SPIRIT OVER AGAINST THE FAILURE OF THE LAW; THE GOSPEL AS THE POWER OF GOD UNTO PRESENT SALVATION FROM SIN_ . This chapter is ‘the climax of the Epistle' (Tholuck). The gospel is a...
1. _The Life in the Spirit contrasted with the Life after the Flesh._ The Christian is free from condemnation (Romans 8:1), because he is freed from the law of sin (Romans 8:2), a result which the law...
THAT THE LAW COULD NOT DO (το αδυνατον του νομου). Literally, "the impossibility of the law" as shown in Romans 7:7-24, either nominative absolute or accusative of general reference. No syntactical...
SIN SIN (_ See Scofield) - (Romans 5:21). _...
Romans 8:1 In the verses before us three points are touched on regarding the gospel as God's power to sanctify. These are: (1) The preliminary work which had to be done by the coming of Christ, or the...
Romans 8:1. _There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit._ To my mind one of the sweetest words of that verse is that...
Romans 8:1. _There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit._ Some people talk about «getting out of the 7 th chapter, in...
Romans 8:1. _There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit._ My hearers, we are each of us, by nature, under the condemn...
This wonderful chapter is the very cream of the cream of Holy Scripture. What a grand key-note the apostle strikes in the first verse! Romans 8:1. _There is therefore now no condemnation to them whic...
This precious chapter reminds us of the description of the land of Havilah, «where there is gold, and the gold of that land is good.» Romans 8:1. _There is therefore now no condemnation to them which...
Romans 8:1. _There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus,_ Observe that Paul writes «There is therefore,» for he is stating a truth which is founded upon solid argument....
The words we are about to read follow a passage in which the Apostle describes the conflict of his soul. It is rather singular that it should be so. To catch the contrast, let us just begin at the en...
Romans 8:1. _There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit._ «No condemnation»: that is the beginning of the chapter. No...
CONTENTS: The new law of the Holy Spirit in the believer, giving deliverance from sinful nature. The full result of the Gospel in the believer and his security. CHARACTERS: God, Jesus, Holy Spirit, P...
The first four verses of this chapter belong to the preseding one, and deduce the just conclusions therefrom, that the state of fallen man is a state of condemnation and legal bondage that he cannot e...
WHAT THE LAW COULD NOT DO. The Law, which Jews were so proud of, could not change human nature. It had no real answer for the problem of sin and death. It was not the righteous demands of the Law that...
_For what the law could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh._ THE REQUIREMENT OF THE LAW I. The Divine purpose for man, whether in the old testament or the new, is the same. The reader who...
ROMANS—NOTE ON ROMANS 8:3 THE LAW (here, the Mosaic law) could not solve humanity’s problem because sin uses the law for its own purposes (see ch. Romans 7:1). God sent his Son as a sa
ROMANS—NOTE ON ROMANS 8:1 Paul celebrates the new life of the Spirit that Christians enjoy as a result of Christ’s saving work. ⇐...
_CRITICAL NOTES_ Romans 8:3.—The flesh of Christ alone is sinless. “Created in the likeness of sinful flesh,” that He might be in all points tempted as men are. Romans 8:4.—Might be fulfilled, be ac...
EXPOSITION ROMANS 8:1 (_c_) _The blessed condition and assured hope of such as are in Christ _Jesus. The summary of the contents of this chapter, which follows the Exposition, may be referred to in...
Let's turn to the eighth chapter of Romans. Fasten your seatbelts as we take off. In the seventh chapter of the book of Romans, Paul has come to the realization that the law is spiritual. While he was...
1 John 4:10; 1 Peter 2:24; 1 Peter 4:1; 1 Peter 4:2; 2 Corinthians 5:
What the law could not do [τ ο α δ υ ν α τ ο ν τ ο υ ν ο μ ο υ]. Lit., the impossible (thing) of the law. An absolute nominative in apposition with the divine act - condemned sin. God condemned sin wh...
For what the law — Of Moses. Could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh — Incapable of conquering our evil nature. If it could, God needed not to have sent his own Son in the likeness of sinf...
Was Jesus actually in human flesh or only in its likeness? PROBLEM: Paul asserts that Jesus was made “in the likeness of sinful flesh,” but he does not assert that Jesus is human flesh. Yet the Bible...
That is, when mankind could by no means be freed from sin and death, God sent his one and only Son to be. sacrifice for sin, that our liberty might be fully accomplished. Observe here, 1. The impoten...