5), and because Romans 7:11 ( διʼ αὐτῆς ἀπέκτ.) See note on 2 Corinthians 5:12; 2 Corinthians 11:12; Galatians 5:13 for απορμην aphormēn a starting place from which to rush into acts of sin, excuses for doing what they want to do. For without the law - i:e., Before its extensive demands and prohibitions come to operate upon our corrupt nature, Sin [was] (rather, 'is') dead - i:e., the sinful principle of our nature lies so dormant, so torpid, that its virulence and power are unknown, and to our feeling it is as good as "dead.". Romans 2:3-4 Commentary. https:https://www.studylight.org/commentaries/tsk/romans-7.html. Romans 7:8. ἀφορμὴν λαβοῦσα means “having received,” not “having taken” occasion. This approaches a personification of sin, as in chap. Without the law sin was dead, because concupiscence had nothing to rouse and trouble it. Emphatic, expressing the relation of the law to sin. Of all the letters of Paul, that to the Christians at Rome has long held pride of place. It is more safe that a bad man should not be accused, than that he should be absolved; and luxury not excited would be more tolerable than it will be now by the very chains irritated and excited as a wild beast.” Thus, Seneca says (de Clementia, i. This activity of sin of which they are unaware, is something experienced by all people, although sadly in many cases they die with it unnoticed, and therefore die without hope. 4,) “We always endeavour to obtain what is forbidden, and desire what is denied.” (These passages are quoted from Tholuck.) For without the law - Before it was given; or where it was not applied to the mind. 8 offers from £108.67. Greek. This is an undisputed fact: ‘Where there is no law there is no sin; and where is no knowledge of law there is no knowledge of sin. But in Romans 8:9; Romans 8:11; Romans 8:16; Romans 8:26-27 it signifies that heavenly Person, whom we call the Holy Ghost, given to the Apostles and others in his miraculous power, and sent to enlighten and sanctify all those who submit to the righteousness of God which is by faith, and desire to live soberly, righteously, and godly. Like the example of Eve in the garden, the command of God "not to eat" gave the devil an opportunity to convince Eve that she was being deprived of something good. https:https://www.studylight.org/commentaries/cal/romans-7.html. But sin. Dedication to Simon Grynaeus. Sin, he says, wrought in him all manner of lust. Dead—Dead to all visibility or phenomenal existence. If such be the effect of the Law, then the inference of the apostle is unavoidable, that it is not adapted to save and sanctify man. CHAPTER 7. Because we died spiritually when we came to faith in Christ, Christians have been freed from our obligation to follow the law. DD. But it is more natural to make this clause depend on the principal verb wrought. The word is the same which in Romans 7:7 is rendered “lust.” If it be asked in what way the Law led to this, we may reply, that the main idea here is, that opposition by law to the desires and passions of wicked men only tends to inflame and exasperate them. ); and whereas sin works concupiscence in all men, and deceives all men, it wrought concupiscence in the Jew, and deceived him under this singular and extraordinary circumstance of having received a destructive power from the law, and so rendered him a dead man in law; which was not the case of the rest of mankind, who then were, as they had always been from the time of the promise (Genesis 3:15. In revivals of religion it often happens that people evince violence, and rage, and cursing, which they do not in a state of spiritual death in the church; and it is often a very certain indication that a man is under conviction for sin when he becomes particularly violent, and abusive, and outrageous in his opposition to God. Because we died spiritually when we came to faith in Christ, Christians have been freed from our obligation to follow the law. And a wife is bound to her husband only as long as he lives, Romans 7:2, Romans 7:3. Is the law sin? Romans 7. The Apostle would not have been without sin, but he would not have felt the action of his unlawful desires, if the strictness of the commandment had not become the occasion of exciting and making them manifest; for without the law, sin, or the workings of his corrupt nature, encountering no opposition, their operation would not have been perceived. But it must be constantly borne in mind that this is only so because sin, the egoistic instinct, already exists in the heart. Go to. 5 a Therefore, since we have been justified by faith, b we 1 have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ. "Family Bible New Testament". https:https://www.studylight.org/commentaries/mpc/romans-7.html. BibliographyCoffman, James Burton. It is more safe that a bad man should not be accused, than that he should be absolved; and luxury not excited would be more tolerable than it will be now by the very chains irritated and excited as a wild beast.” Thus, Seneca says (de Clementia, i. The compound verb with κατά down through always signifies the bringing to pass or accomplishment. "Abbott's Illustrated New Testament". 4, ‘Nolite eodem loco existimare, Quirites, futuram rem, quo fuit, antequam lex de hoc ferretur. Nitimur in vetitum semper, cupimusque negata. The phrase âwrought in me coveting by the commandmentâ would thus be parallel to âworking death in me by that which is good,â below. "Frédéric Louis Godet - Commentary on Selected Books". https:https://www.studylight.org/commentaries/hmc/romans-7.html. 7:8 Thus it was through the commandment that sin wrought all manner of coveting. 1871-8. https:https://www.studylight.org/commentaries/gsc/romans-7.html. God forbid!--"I have said that when we were in the flesh the law stirred our inward corruption, and was thus the occasion of deadly fruit: Is then the law to blame for this? Anyone may have witnessed this effect often on the mind of a wicked and obstinate child. Here he asserts that the commandment discovered to him the sinful nature of evil desires. desires of what is forbidden; it is this perverse desire which is described as the work of ‘sin,’ impulses persisting when there is present the knowledge that they are wrong, and the will or true self is not yet strong enough to control them. iii. Romans 8:2 For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the law of sin and death. by means of the commandment (not = τοῦ νόμου, but the tenth commandment, the prohibition in question) wrought in me (not ‘wrought out,’ ‘brought into action,’ but ‘originated’ [using this commandment as its instrument]) all (manner) of coveting; for without the law sin is (not ‘was:’ the omission of the verb substantive shews the sentence to be a locus communis,—and compare ch. Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible. This takes occasion from the precept of the law to induce us to transgress it; for we are naturally inclined to do what is forbidden. The point in question here is the well-known experience already remarked by the ancients, that man always inclines to forbidden fruit. He expresses most clearly the meaning of his former words; for it is the same as though he had said, that the knowledge of sin without the law is buried. BibliographyTrapp, John. John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible, But sin taking occasion by the commandment, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible, Robertson's Word Pictures in the New Testament, Wrought in me all manner of concupiscence, Expository Notes with Practical Observations on the New Testament, sin takes occasion by the commandment to work all manner of concupiscence in us, Greek Testament Critical Exegetical Commentary, all (manner) of coveting; for without the law sin is, Heinrich Meyer's Critical and Exegetical Commentary on the New Testament, Johann Albrecht Bengel's Gnomon of the New Testament, Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible. ... Charles Hodge, Commentary on the Epistle to the Romans (Grand Rapids: Wm. Cf. The Letter to the Romans has fascinated and perplexed readers ever since antiquity, when the Church Fathers commented extensively on it. BibliographyConstable, Thomas. iii. Sin was dead - It was inoperative, inactive, unexcited. By their union with Christ through faith, they are thus secured. Taking occassion by the commandment; i.e. Sin in the mind is the desire to do, or to be, what is contrary to the holiness and authority of God. Thus, Ovid (Amor. ,) caused them (the Israelites) to hear the ten words, which he concluded with this word, "thou shalt not covet"; שכולם תלוים בו, "for all of them depend on that": and to intimate, that whoever keeps this commandment, it is as if he kept the whole law, and whoever transgresses this, it is all one as if he transgressed the whole law;', and no doubt but it does refer to any unlawful thought of, desire after, and inclination to anything forbidden in the other commandments. "Commentary on Romans 7:8". https:https://www.studylight.org/commentaries/ice/romans-7.html. That meant that he delighted in love, in … Sin here is personified. “afforded by.” Cp. "Cambridge Greek Testament for Schools and Colleges". Romans 7 Home | M. Henry Commentary | Play! He is calm often, and apparently tranquil. They think themselves to be as good as can be reasonably required of them. not active, because that is wanting, by which it may take occasion to be alive. For apart from law, sin is dead" (Romans 7:8) Sin existed before the Law was given and sin dominated the lives of every human being dating back to the fall of Adam. 6:14; 7:4; Gal. Copyright StatementThe text of this work is public domain. Used only by Paul. κατειργάσατο … π. ἐ. All manner of concupiscence - It showed what was evil and forbade it; and then the principle of rebellion, which seems essential to the very nature of sins rose up against the prohibition; and he was the more strongly incited to disobey in proportion as obedience was enjoined. It was not confined to one single desire, but extended to everything which the Law declared to be wrong.Concupiscence - Unlawful or irregular desire. https:https://www.studylight.org/commentaries/egt/romans-7.html. "Commentary on Romans 7:8". Only men seeking first the Kingdom of God and His goodness will be interested in these writings. 1909-1922. "Commentary on Romans 7:8". Chapter 8. Used by Permission. August 23, 2020. St. Thomas’s Commentary on Romans, the first in his series of majestic commentaries on Paul’s letters, stands out among commentaries on Paul’s letters, both ancient and modern, as uniquely ample and refined. Paul means, according to him, that the law manifested the various lusts already present. It was this which "he had not known but by the law." The latter view best suits the context. The word used here means often to operate in a powerful and efficacious manner. BibliographyBullinger, Ethelbert William. Taking occasion by the commandment — Forbidding, but not subduing it, was only fretted, and wrought in me so much the more all manner of evil desire. Now this may be the meaning; and yet the idea seems hardly called for, or relevant to the train of thought. Resistance to its restraints increased his wickedness, and showed, beyond what he had before seen, his depravity of heart. "Commentary on Romans 7:8". The Argument (3:7-8a) b. BibliographyWesley, John. The order of the phrases is due to the necessity of emphasising the manner of sin’s entry into experience; διὰ τ. ἐ. is here unemphatic. It is more safe that a bad man should not be accused, than that he should be absolved; and luxury not excited would be more tolerable than it will be now by the very chains irritated and excited as a wild beast." Wrought in me - Produced or worked in me. 1870. Romans 3:20, Romans 5:20. * 1 Are you unaware, brothers (for I am speaking to people who know the law), that the law has jurisdiction over one as long as one lives? (1-3) The law has authority only over the living. The connection may then be with Romans 8:4, so that Romans 8:5 and Romans 8:6 are coordinate, Romans 8:6 presenting an additional reason why believers do not walk after the flesh. 1685. Ephesians 2:15) takes ἐντολή as equivalent to νόμος. 397), through which antithesis the inner conflict is first introduced. The absence of the verb before "dead" in the Greek text indicates that what Paul was saying was a generalization rather than a specific historical allusion. Romans 5:13. Romans 2:24-26 Commentary. . If you tell a small child, "Suppose a man determined to drive his automobile to the very limit of its speed. Bible commentary. Hence the law becomes the δύναμις τῆς ἁμαρτίας, 1 Corinthians 15:56, though it is not itself τοῦ παρανομεῖν παραίτιος (Chrysippus in Plut. 8. ἐν ἐμοὶ. BibliographyBeza, Theodore. The law is not sin, but sin found occasion in the law. The connection requires us to under stand it only so far as it was excited by the Law. S. Paul analyses his own experience as typical. The speed limit signs did not create the wild desire to rush forward: that was there before. Compare also the well-known saying of Horace, Nitimur in vetitum nefas, cupimusque negata. https:https://www.studylight.org/commentaries/wbc/romans-7.html. Peace with God Through Faith. Publication date. This is the preposition dia (#1223 διά) in the Greek. It could not free from sin and condemnation. Other Forerunner Commentary entries containing Romans 7:8: Romans 10:1-3 Romans 7:7 : Romans 7:9 >> The Berean: Daily Verse and Comment Sign up for the Berean: Daily Verse and Comment, and have Biblical truth delivered to your inbox. "Commentary on Romans 7:8". The word ἀφορμή, which we translate by occasion, strictly signifies the point of support from which the spring or flight proceeds ( ἀπό, ὁρμάω). "The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge". He is calm often, and apparently tranquil. The *Holy Spirit … Death, in a figurative way of speaking, is represented as armed with a dreadful sting; that sting is sin; but death would have no power to thrust that sting into the sinner's heart, were it not for the law of God condemning him to death: for did not the law, or constitution of the lawgiver, condemn him to death, he might, notwithstanding his sin, live for ever, because his sin might from time to time be passed over. Whatever is prohibited is only the more eagerly desired. In this ἀφορμήν placed first emphatically, not in ἡ ἁμαρτία (Th. . That this may be and is misused by the principle of sin, in the way indicated, arises from the fact, that it comes forward merely with the outward command (thou shalt, thou shalt not), without giving the power of fulfilment; comp. A. Dr. Taylor thinks that χωρις νομου, without the law, means the time before the giving of the law from Mount Sinai, which took in the space of 430 years, during which time the people were under the Abrahamic covenant of grace; and without the law that was given on Mount Sinai, the sting of death, which is sin, had not power to slay the sinner; for, from the time that Adam sinned, the law was not re-enacted till it was given by Moses, Romans 5:13. "I was born this way." "Commentary on Romans 7:8". Romans 8:7–8 7 For the mind that is set on the flesh is v hostile to God, for it does not submit to God’s law; w indeed, it cannot. A power, formerly latent and ineficacious, then appears on a sudden to have gathered strength, and to stand up in order to oppress and defeat the purposes of the man, who hitherto was altogether unconscious of the existence in himself of such evils as those which he now perceives. 1. Apart from the law we have no experience either of its character or of its vitality. All this may be said of sin prior to the operation of the law. "We live in a wicked world." the corruption of our nature, the depraved bent and bias of the soul, called before lust. Freedom from the Law. Thus it is true that "through the commandment," as a secondary cause, all manner of violations are multiplied. The wicked nature, says Luther, cannot bear either the good, or the demands of the law; as a sick man is indignant when he is desired to do all that a man in health can do. Such is the effect of the law when the eyes of the understanding are first opened by the Spirit of God. Here, Romans 7:11; 2 Corinthians 5:12; 2 Corinthians 11:12. Thus, an object of ambition is the exciting cause of the principle of ambition. Bullinger's Companion bible Notes". The word used here means often to operate in a powerful and efficacious manner. 2012. It was dead, says Paul. Wrought… concupiscence—Commentators generally understand that the apostle here describes the reaction that sometimes takes place, with which the fractious soul sins the worse from its very spite against the restraints of law. "Commentary on Romans 7:8". If the latter, then, is is to be supplied: ‘Without the law sin is dead." Erasmus (Thol.) People's passions would exist; but without law they would not be known to be evil, and they would not be excited into wild and tumultuous raging. Romans 1:32 Commentary. This is what the Apostle means by saying that âwithout the Law sin was dead.â Until there was a written prohibition, Sin (the evil principle) was powerless to produce sinful actions. Nay--"On the contrary" (as in Romans 8:37, 1 Corinthians 12:22; Greek). 3,) “The human race, bold to endure all things, rushes through forbidden crime.” Thus, Ovid (Amor. (3) such is the depth and obstinacy of sin in man, that the very attempt to restrain often only serves to exasperate, and to urge to greater deeds of wickedness. For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus has made me free from the law of sin and death. Greek Testament Critical Exegetical Commentary. 1905. ( Nitimur in vetitum.) But most of us can look back to sins that we had committed for years without recognising that they were sins, and to the moment of illumination when we said, ‘God forgive me, what have I been doing?’. The word is the same which in Romans 7:7 is rendered "lust." This is evidently to distort the meaning of the apostle"s words. H ere is a Romans chapter seven Bible study with commentary.. Romans 7:1-6 Released from the Law by Death. 7 Or do you not know, brethren (for I speak to those who know the law), that the law [] has dominion over a man as long as he lives? Romans 5:13-14. But sin. Barclay, p99. Cæterum legis indicio proditis tot peccati formis, universa cupiditatum cohors irritata prohibitione cœpit acrius ad peccandum sollicitare.’ Compare also Proverbs 9:17, and (Wetst.) Therefore, brethren, we are debtors—not to the flesh, to live according to … Learn hence, That such is the depravity and perverseness of our present natures, that there is found within us a propensity and inclination to all sin; and although the law of God doth not give the least countenance to sin, yet sin takes occasion, from the restraints of the law, to grow more impetuous, and is the more irritated by being prohibited; and consequently it is not from ourselves, but from God's restraining grace, that those evil inclinations which are in our hearts do not break forth in our lives. https:https://www.studylight.org/commentaries/srn/romans-7.html. 3,) "The human race, bold to endure all things, rushes through forbidden crime." But it gives no power over it, Romans 7:9-11. See Proverbs 9:17, "Stolen waters are sweet, and bread eaten in secret is pleasant." He speaks here of the transgressions of the written law, not the law of nature, of which each one has a sufficient knowledge to render him inexcusable, whenever he transgresses it. A Liberating Commentary on Romans 6, 7 and 8. by. In my opinion, the Best All-Around commentary on Romans is the second edition of Douglas Moo’s 1996 commentary on Romans in the New International Commentary on the New Testament (Eerdmans, 2018). Perhaps no where has he evinced more consummate knowledge of the human heart than here. (f) Abkath Rochel, l. 1. par. (Romans 7:22.) You can ignore the wider context of Romans 9-11 and zero in on the pregnant statements in verse 9 (“If you confess with your lips that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, … 1832. By the commandment - By all law appointed to restrain and control the mind. See also Proverbs 9:17, "Stolen waters are sweet, and bread eaten in secret is pleasant." It is more difficult to realise that our thoughts can be *sinful. ; Fausset, A. R.; Brown, David. In stock on November 10, 2020. That is, the law, on the evidence of those sinful dispositions, and their corresponding practices, condemns the sinner to death: so that he is dead in law. He spurns its authority, yet his conscience tells him it is right; he attempts to throw it off, yet trembles at its power; and to show his independence, or his purpose to sin, he plunges into iniquity, and becomes a more dreadful and obstinate sinner. if it do not enter into relation with the law, sin, the sinful principle in man, is dead, i.e. Wrought in me all manner of concupiscence; Justin Edwards' Family Bible New Testament, Cambridge Greek Testament for Schools and Colleges, William Godbey's Commentary on the New Testament, Haldane's Exposition on the Epistle to the Romans. It is quite true that the feeling of the condemnation of the law aggravates the evil of our hearts, but it is lust or concupiscence that is here said to be inflamed by the prohibitions of the law, nothing can more clearly discover the depravity of human nature than the holy law of God, the unerring standard of right and wrong becoming an occasion of sin; yet so it is. 1917. The usual answer is, the commandment itself: "In lege est occasio," says Calvin. Ovid. The man"s will rebels, and his rebellion is aroused still further by threats: Speed Limit Strictly Enforced. of doing it. In favor of this is the fact, that the main idea of the passage is thus brought out. Observe here, A concession or grant made by the apostle, that although the law was not the formal cause of sin, yet sin was an accidental event of the law, through the depravity and corruption of our natures; lust or concupiscence in us being stirred up more strongly, and breaking forth more violently in us, by being prohibited and restrained by the law. On a sound nature, the commandment would not have acted thus; witness the first temptation in which a foreign agent required to play the part here ascribed to sin. That it subjected the sinner to death, Romans 7:8-12, without the expectation of pardon. BibliographyAbbott, John S. C. & Abbott, Jacob. Proverbs 9:17. χωρὶς γὰρ νόμου ἁμαρτία νεκρά] sc. It means not a real entity; not a physical subsistence; not something independent of the mind, having a separate existence, and lodged in the soul, but it means the corrupt passions, inclinations, and desires of the mind itself. Ed. This is the proper signification of the Greek word ' Αφορμη . Chapter 16. "Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible". (Doddridge.). The apostle designs to show how the law, although good in itself, produced evil: ‘Sin wrought by it.' Thus, Seneca says (de Clementia, i. The Paperback Bible. The law has power over a man as long as he lives, Romans 7:1. )All manner of - Greek, “All desire.” Every species of unlawful desire. Romans 2:27-29 Commentary. Paul emphasizes this, saying that, "apart from the law sin is dead. " "Commentary on Romans 7:8". "Then sin, taking occasion, wrought in me by the commandment all manner of concupiscence; for without the law sin is dead.". The Verdict (3:8b) G. Contribution of Passage to Systematic Theology. "Commentary on Romans 7:8". As an old Roman writer declared: "We always endeavor to obtain that which is forbidden, and desire that which is denied", or as another confessed: "The permitted is unpleasing; the forbidden consumes us fiercely."". Butsin, taking occasion by the commandment, wrought in me all manner of concupiscence. See what St. Paul says of the heathen philosophers, chap. BibliographyWhedon, Daniel. A reference to the desires, which the state of civilisation joined with a positive legislation calls forth (de Wette), is foreign to the connection. Without the law sin was dead. 7, iii. "The 1599 Geneva Study Bible". Thus, we say that lust burns, and ambition rages, and envy corrodes the mind, without meaning that lust, ambition, or envy are any independent physical subsistences, but meaning that the mind that is ambitious, or envious, is thus excited. But now suddenly he encounters a road with frequent signs limiting speed to thirty miles an hour. * 1 Are you unaware, brothers (for I am speaking to people who know the law), that the law has jurisdiction over one as long as one lives? I hence wonder what could have come into the minds of interpreters to render the passage in the preterimperfect tense, as though Paul was speaking of himself; for it is easy to see that his purpose was to begin with a general proposition, and then to explain the subject by his own example. In short, the believer ends up in a battle between the “new nature” and the “old nature” and sadly the old nature wins the conflict. BibliographyHodge, Charles. 1851. "for apart from the law sin is dead"-sin can"t accomplish anything without a law to transgress. The context shows that the Mosaic law is meant. The apostle adds, Without the law sin was dead: that is, without the knowledge and due consideration of the law, sin is comparatively dead: that is, the corruption of nature lies hid, and is not so much known to be sin; nor had it so much power to terrify the conscience, and to stir up inordinate affections, as after the law is known and duly considered. "Whedon's Commentary on the Bible". https:https://www.studylight.org/commentaries/pet/romans-7.html. The apostle saw in it the prohibition not only of desire after certain things there specified, but of 'desire after everything divinely forbidden;' in other words, all 'lusting' or 'irregular desire.' Thus Köllner says, " ἐπιθυμίαν, so von ἁμαρτία verschieden, dass diese das gleichsam im Menschen ruhende sündliche Princip bezeichnet, ἐπιθυμία aber die im einzelnen Falle wirksame böse Lust, ganz eigentlich die Begierde, die dann zunächst zur Sünde in concreto fürht." God’s *blessings for the *Jews 9:1-5. v1 I speak the truth in *Christ. 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