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Verse Romans 7:12. _WHEREFORE THE LAW_ IS _HOLY_] As if he had said,
to soothe his countrymen, to whom he had been showing the absolute
insufficiency of the law either to justify or save from sin: I...
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WHEREFORE - So that. The conclusion to which we come is, that the Law
is not to be blamed, though these are its effects under existing
circumstances. The source of all this is not the Law, but the cor...
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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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What then are we to infer? That the law is sin? God forbid! So far
from that, I would never have known what sin meant except through the
law. I would never have known desire if the law had not said, ...
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THE NEW ALLEGIANCE (Romans 7:1-6)...
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THE LAW. the law indeed (Greek. _men._ Omitted by Authorized Version
and Revised Version.)
JUST. righteous. App-191....
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_Wherefore_, &c. This is not a direct inference from the preceding
passage. The holiness of the Law is rather assumed as an axiom than
proved. But the _fault of Sin_has been so brought out as to leave...
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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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Ὁ ΜῈΝ Κ.Τ.Λ. The antithesis is not expressed; an interruption
is caused by the occurrence of one more false conclusion which has to
be removed. Then the line of thought is resumed in Romans 7:14.
ΔΙΚ...
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ΜΈΝ (G3303) несомненно. Этим он заранее
защищает неприкосновенность закона
(Godet)....
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WHEREFORE THE LAW IS HOLY— In Romans 7:7 the Apostle laid down this
position, _"that the law was not sin."_ In Romans 7:8 he proves it, by
shewing that the law was very strict in forbidding of sin, so...
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TEXT
Romans 7:7-12. What shall we say then? Is the law sin? God forbid.
Howbeit, I had not known sin, except through the law: for I had not
known coveting, except the law had said, Thou shalt not cove...
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Wherefore the law is holy, and the commandment holy, and just, and
good.
WHEREFORE, [ "hooste (G5620 ), 'SO THAT,' 'THUS, THEN,'] THE LAW IS
HOLY, AND THE COMMANDMENT - that one in particular, so o...
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Conciliation-Individual
12 A realization of our death to sin and life in Christ will give us
power to cope with sin, always remembering that sin cannot bring us
into disfavor because of the super...
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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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(11-13) The cause of this miscarriage lay not with the Law but with
Sin. Sin played the tempter, and then made use of the Commandment to
condemn and destroy its victims. All this time the Law (_i.e.,_...
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WHEREFORE. — This word introduces a conclusion, not from the verse
immediately preceding, but from the whole of the last five verses. The
Apostle glances back for a moment over the course of his argum...
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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 conclusion is that the law is holy (this is the answer to the
question with which the discussion started in Romans 7:7 : ὁ
νόμος ἁμαρτία ;), and the commandment, which is the law
in operation, hol...
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The actual working of the law. A very close connection between the law
and sin is implied in all that has preceded: especially in Romans
6:14, and in such an expression as τὰ παθὴματα τῶν
ἁμαρτιῶν τὰ...
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THE LAW MAKES SIN KNOWN
Romans 7:1
To make his meaning clear the Apostle now enters upon a parable drawn
from domestic life. He says that we are married to the Law as our
first husband, and seek, thr...
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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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(6) Wherefore the law [is] holy, and the (t) commandment holy, and
just, and good.
(6) The conclusion: that the law is holy in itself, and that all the
fault is in us, the ones who abuse the law.
(t...
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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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“ _So that the law assuredly is holy, and the commandment holy,
just, and good. Did then that which is good become death unto me? Let
it not be so! But sin, that it might appear sin, wrought death in...
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This whole exposition is introduced by the objection which consists in
identifying the law with sin. But it must not be thought that the
apostle's aim is really to exonerate the law from such a suspic...
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What shall we say then? Is the law sin? God forbid. Nay, I had not
known sin, but by the law: for I had not known lust, except the law
had said, Thou shalt not covet. (8) But sin, taking occasion by t...
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12._So then the law is indeed holy_, _etc. _Some think that the words
_law _and _commandment _is a repetition of the same thing; with whom I
agree; (216) and I consider that there is a peculiar force...
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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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THEREFORE THE LAW IS HOLY,.... This is a conclusion or inference drawn
from the preceding discourse, in commendation of the law; that
standing clear of any charge or imputation of sin, as being the ca...
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Wherefore the law _is_ holy, and the commandment holy, and just, and
good.
Ver. 12. _The commandment_] _Vis legis in mandando et praecipiendo._
The word (εντολη) properly signifieth an affirmative pr...
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_Wherefore_ Since then, by what has been said, it appears that the law
is not the cause of sin or death, except indirectly and by accident,
it must be acquitted from this charge, and acknowledged to b...
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WHEREFORE THE LAW IS HOLY, AND THE COMMANDMENT HOLY, AND JUST, AND
GOOD.
In the previous section the apostle had testified to the Christians
that they had been freed both from sin and from the Law, th...
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THE PURPOSE OF THE LAW AND ITS EFFECT.
The object of the Law:...
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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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7-12 IS THE LAW GOOD OR BAD?
Is it a blessing or a curse?
What did the law do?
1. Pointed out sinful behavior 7
2. Made us aware of sin in our lives 8
3. Makes us aware of the death penalty 9
4....
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SO THAT THE LAW IS HOLY, AND THE COMMANDMENT HOLY, AND RIGHTEOUS, AND
GOOD.
There is nothing wrong with God's law, the problem lies with us, we
allow ourselves to become convinced that the commands of...
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7-13 There is no way of coming to that knowledge of sin, which is
necessary to repentance, and therefore to peace and pardon, but by
trying our hearts and lives by the law. In his own case the apostl...
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WHEREFORE THE LAW IS HOLY; and so the objection, ROMANS 7:7, was a
groundless objection: for though the law were the occasion of sin, or
were made advantage of by sin, as ROMANS 7:8, yet it was not th...
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So that the law is holy, and the commandment holy, and righteous, and
good. [In the days of his youth (and perhaps also even in his young
manhood-- Philippians 3:6), Paul had that free, untroubled con...
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Clement of Alexandria The Instructor Book I " And that he knows that
what is just is good, appears by his saying, "So that the law is holy,
and the commandment holy, and just, and good,"[175]
Clement...
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Romans 7:12 Therefore G5620 G3303 law G3551 holy G40 and G2532
commandment G1785 holy G40 and G2532 just...
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‘So that the law is holy, and the commandment holy, and righteous,
and good.'
Thus he had recognised that ‘the Law was holy, and that the
commandment was holy and just, and good'. They were from God...
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PAUL'S INITIAL EXPERIENCE OF THE ‘SLAYING' POWER OF THE LAW
(7:7-13).
Having demonstrated that much of what sin does in chapter 6, the Law
does in Romans 7:1 (see introduction to chapter 7 above), Pau...
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HOLY, AND RIGHTEOUS, AND GOOD
(αγια κα δικαια κα αγαθη). This is the conclusion
(wherefore, ωστε) to the query in verse Romans 7:7. The
commandment is God's and so holy like Him, just in its requir...
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Romans 7:12
It is plain that the revelation of the law is made to assist us in
copying the pattern which is there set before us. Consider the defect
of character which is the natural consequence of n...
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Romans 7:7
A Chapter in Saul's Early Life.
I. St. Paul repels with energy the idea that there can be anything
essentially bad, unholy, or immoral about the blessed law of God
itself. On the contrary,...
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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 THEN. The Law itself is holy, even in its curse, as it restrains us
from sin by its threat of punishment. Its moral requirements are holy,
right, and good....
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_Wherefore the law is holy, and the commandment holy: and Just, and
good._
THE LAW
I. Its nature. It is--
1. Universal in its extent. It is binding at all times, in all places,
and upon all.
2. Pe...
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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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_What shall we say then?_
Is the law sin? God forbid.
THE LAW
I. Its nature--
1. Moral.
2. Spiritual.
3. Exemplified by the particular commandment quoted.
II. Its use--
1. To describe the natu...
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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 7:7.—I had not known the specific character and peculiar
nature of lust. The law of God proclaims to man _non concupisces_, and
thus he learns that concupiscence is sin. The m...
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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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1 Timothy 1:8; Deuteronomy 10:12; Deuteronomy 4:8; Nehemiah 9:13;...
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Holy, just, good. Holy as God's revelation of Himself; just (Rev.,
righteous) in its requirements, which correspond to God's holiness;
good, salutary, because of its end....
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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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The commandment — That is, every branch of the law. Is holy, and
just, and good — It springs from, and partakes of, the holy nature
of God; it is every way just and right in itself; it is designed
who...
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Observe here, What care and holy caution the apostle uses to vindicate
and clear the holy law of God from all fault and blame, charging his
guilt, not upon the commandment, but upon the corruption of...