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Verse Romans 7:9. _I WAS ALIVE WITHOUT THE LAW ONCE_] Dr. Whitby
paraphrases the verse thus:-"For the seed of Abraham _was alive_
_without the law once_, before the law was given, I being not
obnoxio...
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FOR I - There seems to be no doubt that the apostle here refers to his
own past experience. Yet in this he speaks the sentiment of all who
are unconverted, and who are depending on their own righteous...
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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 Experien...
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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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CAME. App-106.
REVIVED. Greek. _anazao._ Here, Romans 14:9; Luke 15:24; Luke
15:32.Revelation 20:5....
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_For I_ The "I" is emphatic. Through this section, as often elsewhere,
Sin is quasi-personified, and distinguished from the Self which
nevertheless it fatally infects. It is an alien thing, an invasio...
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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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ΈΖΩΝ _impf. ind. act. от_ ΖΆΩ (G2198) жить. Он не
боялся наказания и не ощущал
болезненного присутствия греха (Hodge),
ΈΛΘΟΎΣΗΣ _aor. act. part. (temp.) от_ ΈΡΧΟΜΑΙ (G2064)
приходить. _Gen. abs. Aor....
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DISCOURSE: 1853
THE SPIRITUALITY OF THE LAW
Romans 7:9. _I was alive without the law once: but when the
commandment came, sin revived, and I died_.
WHEN we behold the extreme supineness of those arou...
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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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For I was alive without the law once: but when the commandment came,
sin revived, and I died.
FOR I WAS ALIVE WITHOUT THE LAW ONCE, [ pote (G4218)] - 'at one
time,' or 'formerly'-q.d., 'In the day...
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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 (Romans 7:7) he shows that...
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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 peo...
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I WAS ALIVE. — The state of unconscious morality, uninstructed but
as yet uncondemned, may, compared with that state of condemnation, be
regarded as a state of “life.”
REVIVED. — The English version...
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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 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, th...
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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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(5) For I was alive without the (q) law once: but when the commandment
(r) came, sin revived, and I (s) died.
(5) He sets himself before us as an example, in whom all men may
behold, first what they...
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I lived some time without the law; i.e. without the knowledge of the
law. This some understand St. Paul in the time of his childhood,
before he came to the knowledge of what was forbidden by any law....
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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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9._For I was alive, etc. _He means to intimate that there had been a
time when sin was dead to him or in him. But he is not to be
understood as though he had been without law at any time, but this
wor...
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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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FOR I WAS ALIVE WITHOUT THE LAW ONCE,.... The apostle says this, not
in the person of Adam, as some have thought; who lived indeed, in a
state of innocence, a perfectly holy and righteous life, but no...
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For I was alive without the law once: but when the commandment came,
sin revived, and I died.
Ver. 9. _For I was alive_] As being without sense of sin, and
conscience of duty.
_ Sin revived_] _sc._...
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_For I was alive_ In my own conceit; _without the law_ Without the
proper knowledge of its spirituality, extent, and obligation. I
apprehended myself to be righteous, and in the way to life eternal;
_...
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I WAS ALIVE; in my own estimation, and thought I was blameless as
touching the law. Philippians 3:6.
THE COMMANDMENT; that which extends to all the thoughts and desires of
the soul, and requires them...
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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 an...
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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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AND. WAS ALIVE APART FROM THE LAW ONCE: BUT WHEN THE COMMANDMENT CAME,
SIN REVIVED, AND. DIED; "I WAS ALIVE APART FROM THE LAW ONCE" -but if
Calvinism is true (Total Hereditary Depravity, i.e. one is...
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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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FOR I WAS ALIVE WITHOUT THE LAW ONCE: q.d. Take me, if you please, for
an instance. Before I knew the law aright, and understood the Divine
and spiritual meaning of it, or whilst the law stood afar of...
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And I was alive apart from the law once: but when the commandment
came, sin revived, and I died;...
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Origen Against Celsus Book III
For wickedness must necessarily first exist in men. As Paul also says,
"When the commandment came, sin revived, and I died."[192]
Methodius From the Discourse on the R...
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Romans 7:9 G1161 I G1473 alive G2198 (G5707) once G4218 without G5565
law G3551 but G1161 commandment G1785 came G2064 (G5631) sin G266
revived G326 (G5656) and G1161 I G1473 died G599 (G5627)
For I...
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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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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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I WAS ALIVE
(εζων). Imperfect active. Apparently, "the lost paradise in the
infancy of men" (Denney), before the conscience awoke and moral
responsibility came, "a seeming life" (Shedd).SIN REVIVED...
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WHEN THE COMMANDMENT
The passage (Romans 7:7) is autobiographical. Paul's religious
experience was in three strongly marked phases:
(1) He was a godly Jew under the law. That the passage does not re...
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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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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...
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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 s...
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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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I MYSELF WAS ONCE ALIVE. _Gifford_ says: "There is a deep tragic
pathos in the brief and simple statement; it seems to point to some
definite period full of painful recollections." This could be the 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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Galatians 2:19; Galatians 3:10; James 2:10; James 2:11; Luke 10:25;
Luke 15:29; Luke 18:21; Luke 18:9; Mark 7:8; Matthew 15:4;...
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I was alive - once [ε ζ ω ν π ο τ ε]. Referring to the time of
childlike innocence previous to the stimulus imparted to the inactive
principle of sin by the coming of the law; when the moral self -
de...
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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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And I was once alive without the law — Without the close application
of it. I had much life, wisdom, virtue, strength: so I thought. But
when the commandment — That is, the law, a part put for the who...
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As if the apostle had said, "Formerly, when. lived. Pharisee, and had
the law in my hand, but did not consider in my heart what exactness
and perfection it required in my life,. contented myself with...