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04953
[1] {newness}
Cf.
# Ro 2:29 2Co 3:6
"The letter" is a Paulinism for the law, as "spirit" in these passages
is his word for the relationships and powers of new life in Christ
Jesus. In # 2Co 3 a series is presented of contrast of law
with "spirit," of the old covenant and the new. The contrast is not
between two methods of interpretation, literal, and spiritual, but
between two methods of divine dealing: one through the law, the other
through the Holy Spirit.
04956
[2] {when the commandment}
The passage (vs 7-25) 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 refer to that period is
clear from his own explicit statements elsewhere. At that time he
held himself to be "blameless" as concerned the law
# Php 3:6
He had "lived in all good conscience"
# Ac 23:1
(2) With his conversion came new light upon the law itself. He now
perceived it to be "spiritual" (v.14). He now saw that, so far from
having kept it, he was condemned by it. He had supposed himself to be
"alive," but now the commandment really "came" (v.9) and he "died."
Just when the apostle passed through the experience of
# Ro 7:7-25
we are not told. Perhaps during the days of physical blindness at
Damascus
# Ac 9:9
perhaps in Arabia
# Ga 1:17
It is the experience of a renewed man, under the law, and still
ignorant of the delivering power of the Holy Spirit
# Ro 8:2
(3) With the great revelations afterward embodied in Galatians and
Romans, the apostle's experience entered it third phase. He now knew
himself to be "dead to the law by the body of Christ," and, in the
power of the indwelling Spirit, "free from the law of sin and death"
# Ro 8:2
while "the righteousness of the law" was wrought in him (not by him)
while he walked after the Spirit
# Ro 8:4
Romans 7. is the record of past conflicts and defeats experience as a
renewed man under law.
04961
[2] {carnal}
Cf
# 1Co 3:1,4
"Carnal" = "fleshly" is Paul's word for the Adamic nature,
and for the believer who "walks," i.e. lives, under the power of it.
"Natural" is his characteristic word for the unrenewed man
# 1Co 2:14
as "spiritual" designates the renewed man who walks in the Spirit
# 1Co 3:1 Ga 6:1
04962
[2] {I do I allow not}
The apostle personifies the strife of the two natures in the believer,
the old or Adamic nature, and the divine nature received through the new
birth
# 1Pe 1:23 2Pe 1:4 Ga 2:20 Col 1:27
The "I" which is Saul of Tarsus, and the "I" which is Paul the apostle
are at strife, and "Paul" is in defeat. In Chapter 8. this strife is
effectually taken up on the believer's behalf by the Holy Spirit
# Ro 8:2 Ga 5:16,17
and Paul is victorious. Contra,
# Eph 6:12
where the conflict is not fleshly, but spiritual.
04968
[3] {a law}
Six "laws" are to be distinguished in Romans: The law of Moses, which
condemns
# Ro 3:19
"law" as a principle
# Ro 3:21
the law of faith, which excludes self-righteousness
# Ro 3:27
the law of sin in the members, which is victorious over the law of the
mind
# Ro 7:21,23,25
the law of the mind, which consents to the law of Moses but cannot do
it because of the law of sin in the members
# Ro 7:16,23
and the "law of the Spirit," having power to deliver the believer from
the law of sin which is in his members, and his conscience from
condemnation by the Mosaic law. Moreover the Spirit works in the
yielded believer the very righteousness which Moses' law requires
# Ro 8:2,4
04974
[1] {Spirit}
Hitherto in Romans the Holy Spirit has been mentioned but once
# Ro 5:5
in this chapter He is mentioned nineteen times. Redemption is by blood
and by power
» See Note "Ex 14.30
# Ro 3:21-5:11
speaks of the redemptive price; Ro 8. of redemptive power.
04988
[2] {children}
Gr. teknon, "one born," a child (and so in vs 17,21); not, as in verse
14, "sons" (gr. huios). See
# Ga 4:1,7
where babyhood and sonhood are contrasted. Also "Adoption"
# Ro 8:15,23 Eph 1:5