 | Platon (Metropolitan of Moscow) - 1814 - 364 sidor
...these striking words to the Romans, vi. 14, " Ye are not under the law, but under grace;" and vii. 6, '^Now we are delivered from the law, that being dead wherein we were held." We ought not to suppose that the apostle, by these words, laid aside the law of God, — God fprbid!... | |
 | Thomas Bell - 1814 - 514 sidor
...with all hopes of life by it, verse 4. Ye are become dead to the law by the body of Christ, ver.se 6. We are delivered from the law, that being dead wherein we were held. Sin shall not have dominion over you, says the apostle, for ye are not under the law, Rom. vi. 14.... | |
 | William Eusebius Andrews - 1815 - 564 sidor
...explains what he means by the vldness of the letter. When we were in the flesh, the passions of sins, which were by the law, did work in our members, to bring forth fruit unto death. But the being born again, mentioned by Christ, is not said in opposition to a wicked life ; he opposes... | |
 | Nathan Bangs - 1815 - 336 sidor
...ver. 4, of the 8th chapter, inclusive. Ver. 5. For when we were in the flesh, the motions of sins, which were by the law, did work in our members to bring forth fruit unto death. This proposition he takes up at the 7th verse, and illustrates it in a very striking manner, by personifying... | |
 | Adam Clarke - 1817 - 746 sidor
...establish the laze." In the serenth chap, when in ver. 6. he had advanced the bold assertion, " that now we are delivered from the law, that being dead wherein we were held ;" in the next verse he comes in with this healing question, " What »hall we say then ? Is the law... | |
 | 1824 - 496 sidor
...and the time past from the present. " When we were in the flesh," he observes, " the motions of sin which were by the law, did work in our members to...death ; but now we are delivered from the law, that we should serve in newness of spirit." Here are the two states : the state past was a state of corruption,... | |
 | Andrew Fuller - 1820 - 440 sidor
...deceitful lusts.* Farther : Mr. B. thinks this sentiment supported by a passage in Rom. vii. 6. «' But now we are delivered from the law, that being dead wherein we were held ; that we should serve in newness of spirit, and not in the oldness of the letter." (p. 73.) But his sense of... | |
 | Andrew Fuller - 1820 - 442 sidor
...Farther : Mr. B. thinks this sentiment supported by a passage in Rom. vii. 6. " But now we are»delivered from the law, that being dead wherein we were held ; that we should serve in newness of spirit, and not in the oldness of the letter." (p. 73.) But his sense of... | |
 | William Romaine - 1821 - 314 sidor
...God. In the same person, sin dwelleth, as we read, " When we were in the flesh, the motions of sin, which were by the law, did work in our members to bring forth fruit unto death. And the new man liveth, who after God is created in righteousness and true holiness." The apostle in... | |
 | Church of England articles - 1821 - 234 sidor
...Wickedness proceedeth from the wicked. 1 Sam. xxiv. 13. When we were in the flesh, the motions of sin, which were by the law, did work in our members to bring forth fruit unto death. Rom. vii. 5. Either make the tree good, and his fruit good; or else make the tree corrupt, and his... | |
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But now we are delivered from the law, that being dead wherein we were held; that we should serve in newness of spirit, and not in the oldness of the letter. 
