Commentary on Romans

But when the commandment came,etc. So now, on the other hand, he sets forth the law as coming when it began to be really underst ...

with anything wrong, — that it is good, and hence pure and free from everything that can do harm. He thus defends the law agains ...

Romans 7:14-17 Scimus enim quod Lex spiritualis est: ego autem carnalis sum, venditus sub peccato. For me know that the law is ...

by many before our time, is not worthy of being refuted; he says, that the law is called spiritual by Paul, because the Scriptur ...

and the righteousness of the law. From this case, also, a proof as to the other clause may more fitly be sought, than from the m ...

is said cannot be applied to any but to the regenerate. And we shall now endeavor to make our readers clearly to see that such i ...

“What is hurtful I follow; I shun what I believe would be profitable.” For these act under a constraint when they subscribe to t ...

of the Spirit. In the same manner, by the term spirit, which is commonly opposed to the flesh, he means that part of the soul wh ...

Video autem alterum Legem in membris meis, repugnantem^229 legi mentis meæ, et But I see another law in my members, warring aga ...

But we ought to notice carefully the meaning of the inner man and of the members; which many have not rightly understood, and ha ...

Gratias ago Deo per Iesum Christum Dominum nostrum: itaque idem ego mente servio Legi Dei,carne autem legi peccati. I thank God ...

anxieties in his bosom; for they do not so dwell on the thoughts of their misery, but that being mindful of grace received, they ...

CHAPTER 8 Romans 8:1-4 Nulla igitur condemnatio est iis qui sunt in Christo Iesu, qui non secumdum carnem ambulant, sed secundu ...

sanctify us that we may be really purified. He adds that it is life-giving, (for the genitive case, after the manner of the Hebr ...

and turn not the mercy of God so as to promote the licentiousness of the flesh. And then the state of the case must be noticed; ...

satisfies the divine law, he will be deemed just before God. He does not then deny that the law is sufficient to justify us as t ...

to which a curse is annexed κάθαρμα, catharma. The same thing is declared by Paul in 2 Corinthians 5:21, when he says, that “Chr ...

Romans 8:5-8 Qui enim secundum carnem sunt, ea quæ carnis sunt cogitant; qui vero secundum Spiritum, ea quæ sunt Spiritus. For ...

being given to the allurements of the flesh, apply their minds and study to depraved lusts.^244 Now, in the second clause he enc ...

7.Because the minding of the flesh,^247 etc. He subjoins a proof of what he had stated, — that nothing proceeds from the efforts ...