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Verse Romans 7:21. _I FIND THEN A LAW_] I am in such a condition and
state of soul, under the power of such habits and sinful propensities,
_that when I would do good_-when my _will_ and _reason_ are...
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I FIND THEN A LAW - There is a law whose operation I experience
whenever I attempt to do good. There have been various opinions about
the meaning of the word “law” in this place. It is evident that it...
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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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A LAW, &C.. the law with me who wish....
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_I find then_, &c. The Gr. construction of this verse is difficult.
But the explanation is helped by remembering that THE LAW, not
"_a_law," is the right version; and all analogy of passages leads us...
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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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ἌΡΑ sums up the reiterated positions of Romans 7:15-20.
ΤῸΝ ΝΌΜΟΝ = this law of my condition: a new sense of the word
involving some confusion of language. The law of his condition is that
there are t...
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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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ΘΈΛΟΝΤΙ _praes. act. part. dat. sing. от_ ΘΈΛΩ (G2309)
желать. Part, описывает текущую
особенность,
ΠΟΙΕΪ́Ν _praes. inf. act. от_ ΠΟΙΈΩ (G4160)
делать. _Inf._ как дополнение основного
гл....
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DISCOURSE: 1854
SPIRITUAL CONFLICTS OF BELIEVERS
Romans 7:18. I know that in me (that is, in my flesh,) dwelleth no
good thing: for to will is present with me; but how to perform that
which is good, I...
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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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I find then a law, that, when I would do good, evil is present with
me.
I FIND THEN A LAW, [ ton (G3588) nomon (G3551)] - rather, 'this law,'
THAT, WHEN I WOULD DO GOOD, EVIL IS PRESENT WITH ME....
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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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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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I FIND THEN A LAW. — Of the many ways of taking this difficult
verse, two seem to stand out as most plausible or possible. In any
case “_a_ law” should be rather “_the_ law.” This is taken by
the majo...
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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 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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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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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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Romans 7:21-23 summarise the argument. εὑρίσκω ἄρα τὸν
νόμον … ὅτι : most commentators hold that the clause
introduced by ὅτι is the explanation of τὸν νόμον. The
law, in short, which Paul has discove...
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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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(13) I find then a law, that, when I would do good, evil is present
with me.
(13) The conclusion: as the law of God exhorts to goodness, so does
the law of sin (that is, the corruption in which we are...
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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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“ _I find then, this law, that, when I would do good, evil cleaves
to me._ ”
Always the same two characteristics of his moral state: will for good,
but powerless; evil carrying him away in practice....
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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, _c...
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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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21._I find then_, _etc. _Here Paul supposes a fourfold law. The first
is the law of God, which alone is properly so called, which is the
rule of righteousness, by which our life is rightly formed. To...
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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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I FIND THEN A LAW,.... This is to be understood either of the
corruption of nature, which he found by experience to be in him; and
which, because of its force, power, and prevalence it sometimes had i...
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I find then a law, that, when I would do good, evil is present with
me.
Ver. 21. _When I would do good_] Something lay at the fountain head,
as it were, and stopped him when he would do his duty. But...
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_I find then a law_ An inward constraining power, flowing from my
depraved nature; _that when I would_ When I incline and purpose to _do
good, evil is present with me_ To prevent the execution of such...
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A LAW; a constant tendency to evil, when I desire to be and do that
only which is perfectly good....
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The difficulty of the struggle and the plea for deliverance:...
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I FIND, THEN, A LAW, THAT, WHEN I WOULD DO GOOD, EVIL IS PRESENT WITH
ME....
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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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ROMANS 7:21. FIND THEN THE LAW, THAT, TO ME WHO WOULD DO GOOD, EVIL IS
PRESENT.
Under. system of law, not matter how hard Paul tried and desired to
fulfill the demands of the law, he still found hims...
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18-22 The more pure and holy the heart is, it will have the more
quick feeling as to the sin that remains in it. The believer sees more
of the beauty of holiness and the excellence of the law. His ea...
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OLBGrk;
This verse hath greatly vexed interpreters. The apostle speaking
simply and abstractly of A LAW, the question is: What law he means?
Some take the word improperly, for a decree or condition, w...
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I find then the law, that, to me who would do good, evil is present.
[So then, I say again that I, in my own conscience, endorse the
goodness of the law, for my spiritual nature wishes to perform its...
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Romans 7:21 find G2147 (G5719) then G686 law G3551 that G3754 evil
G2556 present G3873 (G5736) me...
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‘I find then the law, that, to me who would do good, evil is
present. For I delight in the law of God after the inward man, but I
see a different law in my members, warring against the law of my mind,...
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THE LAW
(τον νομον). The principle already set forth (αρα,
accordingly) in verses Romans 7:18; Romans 7:19. This is the way it
works, but there is no surcease for the stings of conscience....
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LAW
Six "laws" are to be distinguished in Romans:
THE LAW OF MOSES, which condemns (Romans 3:19);
THE "LAW" AS A PRINCIPLE, (Romans 3:21);
THE LAW OF FAITH, which excludes self-righteousness ...
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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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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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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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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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THIS LAW IS AT WORK. This is similar to Romans 7:10. "This is how I
find the Law or life under the rule of the Law works out in actual
practice: when I make up my mind to do good, evil is the only cho...
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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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_I find then a law, that, when I would do good, evil is present with
me._
THE INWARD CONFLICT
There is no word with which we are more familiar than “conflict.”
We see strife everywhere; amongst the e...
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ROMANS—NOTE ON ROMANS 7:21 The meaning of “law” in these verses
has been debated. Some think every use of the word refers to the
Mosaic law. Most argue that in vv. Romans 7:21 and...
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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 Chronicles 30:18; 2 Chronicles 30:19; 2 Peter 2:19; Ephesians 6:11;...
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A law. With the article, the law. The constant rule of experience
imposing itself on the will. Thus in the phrases law of faith, works,
the spirit. Here the law of moral contradiction.
When I would ...
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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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I find then a law — An inward constraining power, flowing from the
dictate of corrupt nature....
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As if the apostle had said, "I verily find sin, having an impelling
power and impulsive virtue in it, like. law in my members, thwarting
and contradicting the inclinations of my mind, and the resoluti...