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Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - Romans 7:2

(2) For the woman which hath an husband.—The illustration is not quite exact. The Law is here represented by the husband, but the Apostle does not mean to say that the Law dies to the Christian, but the Christian to the Law. The proposition must therefore be understood to be stated in a somewhat abstract form. Relations of the kind indicated are terminated by death (not necessarily the death of one party to them more than another). The relation of wife and husband ceases absolutely and entirely... read more

Charles John Ellicott

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - Romans 7:4

(4) Are become dead.—Were rendered dead—somewhat stronger than simply “ye died.”By the body of Christ—i.e., by the death of the human body of Christ upon the cross. The Christian, as the last chapter has shown, is so united to Christ that whatever has happened to his Master has happened also to him. Christ was put to death upon the cross; he therefore has also been put to death with Him. But why put to death to the Law? Probably all that is meant is simply that the Christian died, and therefore... read more

Charles John Ellicott

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - Romans 7:5

(5) The new alliance ought not to be unproductive, for the old alliance was not unproductive. Before that mortification of the flesh which proceeds from our relation to the death of Christ, we bore a fruit generated through our carnal appetites by the Law, and the only being to whose honour and glory they contributed was Death.The sins committed under the old dispensation are regarded as due to a two-fold agency—on the one hand to the Law (the operation of which is described more particularly... read more

Charles John Ellicott

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - Romans 7:6

(6) That being dead.—Our translators seem to have had a false reading here, which is not found in any MS., but arose from an error of Beza and Erasmus in interpreting a comment of Chrysostom’s. The true reading runs thus: “But as it is we were” (not “are”) “delivered from the Law, having died to that wherein we were held.” In the act of our baptism, which united us to Christ, we obtained a release from our old tyrant, the Law.Wherein we were held.—Oppressed, held in bondage.That we should... read more

Charles John Ellicott

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - Romans 7:7

(7) What shall we say then?—The Apostle had spoken in a manner disparaging to the Law, and which might well give offence to some of his readers. It was necessary to correct this. And so now he proceeds to lay down more precisely in what it was that the Law was defective, and what was its true function and relation to the history and struggles of humanity.In what follows the Apostle speaks throughout in the first person. He is really making a general statement which applies to all mankind; but... read more

Charles John Ellicott

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - Romans 7:8

(8) Taking occasion.—The word in the Greek implies originally a military metaphor: taking as a “base of operations,” i.e., an advanced post occupied as the starting-point and rendezvous for further advances. Sin is unable to. act upon man without the co-operation of law, without being able to hold up law before him, and so show itself in its true colours.The words “by the commandment” may either go with “taking occasion” or with “wrought in me.” The sense would, in either case, be very much the... read more

Charles John Ellicott

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - Romans 7:9

(9) 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 well represents the meaning of the original, which is not that sin “came to life,” but that it “came to life again.” Sin is lurking in the heart from the first, but it is dormant until the Commandment comes; then it “revives.”I died.—Became subject to the doom of eternal death. read more

Charles John Ellicott

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - Romans 7:10

(10) Which was ordained to.—“The very commandment which was for life I found to be for death” (Ellicott). The Law was instituted in order that it might give life to those who were under it and who kept it. They did not keep it, and therefore it brought them not life but death. read more

Charles John Ellicott

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - Romans 7:11-13

(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., the whole body of precepts) and the Commandment (i.e., the particular precepts included in the Law) remained perfectly good in themselves. They could not be otherwise, having come from the hand of God Himself. Sin was the fatal power. The Law and the Commandment were only passive instruments which... read more

Charles John Ellicott

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - Romans 7:12

(12) 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 argument. read more

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - Romans 7:2

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - Romans 7:4

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - Romans 7:5

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - Romans 7:6

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - Romans 7:7

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - Romans 7:8

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - Romans 7:9

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - Romans 7:10

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - Romans 7:11-13

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - Romans 7:12

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