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Romans 7
1 Know (1) ye not, brethren, (for I speak to them that know the Law) that the (*)
Law hath dominion over a man as long as he liveth?
(1) By propounding the similitude of a marriage, he compareth the state of man both before and after
regeneration together. The law of matrimony, saith he, is this, that so long as the husband liveth, the
marriage abideth in force, but if he be dead, the woman may marry again.
(*) Meaning, moral Law.
2 (*) For the (♣) woman which is in subjection to a man, is bound by the law to the
man, while he liveth; but if the man be dead, she is delivered from the law of the
man.
(*) 1 Corinthians 7:32 .
(♣) Both in this first marriage and in the second, the husband and the wife must be considered within
ourselves; the first husband was Sin, and our flesh was the wife, their children were the fruits of the
flesh, Galatians 5:19 . In the second marriage the Spirit is the husband, the new creature is the wife,
and their children are the fruits of the Spirit, Galatians 5:22 .
3 So then, if while the man liveth, she taketh another man, she shall be (a) called
an adulteress; but if the man be dead, she is free from the Law, so that she is not
an adulteress, though she take another man.
(a) That is, she shall be an adulteress, by the consent and judgment of all men.
Barrie Ontario
Canada
Reform
Romans 7
1 Know (1) ye not, brethren, (for I speak to them that know the Law) that the (*)
Law hath dominion over a man as long as he liveth?
(1) By propounding the similitude of a marriage, he compareth the state of man both before and after
regeneration together. The law of matrimony, saith he, is this, that so long as the husband liveth, the
marriage abideth in force, but if he be dead, the woman may marry again.
(*) Meaning, moral Law.
2 (*) For the (♣) woman which is in subjection to a man, is bound by the law to the
man, while he liveth; but if the man be dead, she is delivered from the law of the
man.
(*) 1 Corinthians 7:32 .
(♣) Both in this first marriage and in the second, the husband and the wife must be considered within
ourselves; the first husband was Sin, and our flesh was the wife, their children were the fruits of the
flesh, Galatians 5:19 . In the second marriage the Spirit is the husband, the new creature is the wife,
and their children are the fruits of the Spirit, Galatians 5:22 .
3 So then, if while the man liveth, she taketh another man, she shall be (a) called
an adulteress; but if the man be dead, she is free from the Law, so that she is not
an adulteress, though she take another man.
(a) That is, she shall be an adulteress, by the consent and judgment of all men.
