firmed, no man disannulleth, or addeth thereto, Gal. iii. 15. We then that are strong ought to bear the infirmities of the weak, and not to please ourselves, Rom. xv. 1. For we have not an high priest which cannot be touched with the feeling of our infirmities; but was in all points tempted like as we are, yet without sin, Heb. iv. 15. c ye • Neither yield ye your members as | instruments of unrighteousness unto sin: but yield yourselves unto God, as those that are alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness unto God, ver. 13. But God be thanked, that ye were the servants of sin, but ye have obeyed from the heart that form of doctrine which was delivered you, 17. And such were some of you: but ye are washed, but ye are sanctified, but are justified in the name of the Lord Jesus, and by the Spirit of our God, 1 Cor. vi. 11. Wherein in time past ye walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the Spirit that now worketh in the children of disobedience: Among whom also we all had our conversation in times past in the lusts of our flesh, fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the mind; and were by nature the children of wrath even as others, Eph. ii. 2, 3. Mortify therefore your members which are upon the earth; fornication, uncleanness, inordinate affection, evil concupiscence, and covetousness, which is idolatry: For which things' sake the wrath of God cometh on the children of disobedience: In the which ye also walked some time, when ye lived in them, Col. iii. 5-7. That he no longer should live the rest of his time in the flesh to the lusts of men, but to the will of God. For the time past of our life may suffice us to have wrought the will of the Gentiles, when we walked in lasciviousness, lusts, excess of wine, revellings, banquetings, and abominable idolatries: Wherein they think it strange that ye run not with them to the same excess of riot, speaking evil of you, 1 Pet. iv. 2-4. Neither yield ye your members as instruments of unrighteousness unto sin but yield yourselves unto God, A. D. 60. as those that are alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness unto God, ver. 15. * But now being made free from sin, and become servants to God, ye have your fruit unto holiness, and the end everlasting life, ver. 22. VER. 20. Ὅτε γὰρ δοῦλοι ἦτε τῆς ἁμαρτίας, ἐλεύθεροι ἦτε τῇ δικαιοσύνη. For when ye were the servants of six, ye were free from righteousness. * Gr. to righteousness. VER. 21. Τίνα οὖν καρπὸν εἴχετε τότε ἐφ ̓ οἷς νῦν ἐπαισχύνεσθε; τὸ γὰρ τέλος ἐκείναν, 9ávaros. a What fruit had ye then in these things whereof ye are now ashamed? for the end of those things is death. 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, vii. 5. Therefore shall they eat of the fruit of their own way, and be filled with their own devices, Prov. i. 31. Lest strangers be filled with thy wealth; and thy labours be in the house of a stranger; And thou mourn at the last, when thy flesh and thy body are consumed, And say, how have I hated instruction, and my heart despised reproof; And have not obeyed the voice of my teachers, nor inclined mine ear to them that instructed me, v. 10—13. Stolen waters are sweet, and bread eaten in secret is pleasant. But he knoweth not that the dead are there; and that her guests are in the depths of hell, ix. 17, 18. Say ye to the righ teous, that it shall be well with him: for they shall eat the fruit of their doings, Isa. iii. 10. I the LORD search the heart, I try the reins, even to give every man according to his ways, and according to the fruit of his doings, Jer. xvii. 10. Be not deceived; God is not mocked; for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap. For he that soweth to his flesh shall of the flesh reap corruption; but he that soweth to the Spirit shall of the Spirit reap life everlasting, Gal. vi. 7, 8, And said, O my God, I am ashamed and blush to lift up my face A.D. 60. ROM. VI. 21, 22. A. D. 60. against thee, Dan. ix. 7, 8. And many of them that sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake, some to everlasting life, and some to shame and everlasting contempt, xii. 2. And when he came to himself, he said, How many hired servants of my father's have bread enough and to spare, and I perish with hunger! I will arise and go to my father, and will say unto him, Father, I have sinned against heaven, and before thee, And am no more worthy to be called thy son: make me as one of thy hired servants, Luke xv. 17-19. For behold this selfsame thing, that ye sorrowed after a godly sort, what carefulness it wrought in you, yea, what clearing of yourselves, yea, what indignation, yea, what fear, yea, what vehement desire, yea, what zeal, yea, what revenge! In all things ye have approved yourselves to be clear in this matter, 2 Cor. vii. 11. C to thee, my God: for our iniquities | to our fathers, because we have sinned are increased over our head, and our trespass is grown up unto the heavens, Ezra ix. 6. Behold, I am vile; what shall I answer thee? I will lay mine hand upon my mouth, Job xl. 4. Wherefore I abhor myself, and repent in dust and ashes, xlii. 6. Therefore the showers have been with-holden, and there hath been no latter rain; and thou hadst a whore's forehead, thou refusedst to be ashamed, Jer. iii. 3. Were they ashamed when they had committed abomination? nay, they were not at all ashamed, neither could they blush: therefore shall they fall among them that fall: in the time of their visitation they shall be cast down, saith the LORD, viii. 12. They shall come with weeping, and with supplications will I lead them: I will cause them to walk by the rivers of waters in a straight way, wherein they shall not stumble: for I am a Father to Israel, and Ephraim is my first-born, xxxi. 9. Then thou shalt remember thy ways, and be ashamed, when thou shalt receive thy sisters, thine elder and thy younger and I will give them unto thee for daughters but not by thy covenant. And I will establish my covenant with thee; and thou shalt know that I am the LORD. That thou mayest remember, and be confounded, and never open thy mouth any more because of thy shame, when I am pacified toward thee for all that thou hast done, saith the Lord GOD, Ez. xvi. 61-63. Then shall ye remember your own evil ways, and your doings that were not good, and shall lothe yourselves in your own sight for your iniquities and for your abominations. Not for your sakes do I this, saith the Lord GOD, be it known unto you: be ashamed and confounded for your own ways, O house of Israel, xxxvi. 31, 32. O LORD, righteousness belongeth unto thee, but unto us confusion of faces, as at this day; to the men of Judah, and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and unto all Israel, that are near, and that are far off, through all the countries whither thou hast driven them, because of their trespass that they Νυνὶ δὲ ἐλευθερωθέντες ἀπὸ τῆς ἁμαρ have trespassed against thee. Ο τίας, δουλωθέντες δὲ τῷ Θεῷ, ἔχετε τὸν LoRD to us belongeth confusion of καρπὸν ὑμῶν εἰς ἁγιασμόν· τὸ δὲ τέλος, face, to our kings, to our princes, and v aivov. For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord, ver. 23. Who knowing the judgment of God, that they which commit such things are worthy of death, not only do the same, but have pleasure in them that do them, i. 32. Until I went into the sanctuary of God; then understood I their end, Psal. lxxiii. 17. There is a way which seemeth right unto a man, but the end thereof are the ways of death, Prov. xiv. 12, and xvi. 25. Whose end is destruction, whose god is their belly, and whose glory is in their shame, who mind earthly things, Phil.iii. 19. Let him know, that he which converteth a sinner from the error of his way shall save a soul from death, and shall hide a multitude of sins, Jam. v. 20. For the time is come that judgment must begin at the house of God: and if it first begin at us, what shall the end be of them that obey not the Gospel of God? 1 Pet. iv. 17. See also on Matt. iii. ver. 10. clause 4; ver. 12. clause 5; and chap. v. ver. 22. clause 8. VER. 22. A. D. 60. -VII. 1—4. ROM. VI. 22, 23.— c But a now being made free from sin, and b become servants to God, ye have your fruit unto holiness, and the end everlasting life. a See on Matt. v. ver. 8. clause 1. See on chap. i. ver. 1. clause 2. c See on Matt. vii. ver. 17. clause 1. d Who can count the dust of Jacob, and the number of the fourth part of Israel? Let me die the death of the righteous, and let my last end be like his! Num. xxiii. 10. Mark the perfect man, and behold the upright: for the end of that man is peace. But the transgressors shall be destroyed together : the end of the wicked shall be cut of, Psal. xxxvii. 37, 38. As therefore the tares are gathered and burned in the fire; so shall it be in the end of this world. Then shall the righteous shine forth as the sun in the kingdom of their father. Who hath ears to hear let him hear, Matt. xiii. 40. 43. And every one that hath forsaken houses, or brethren, or sisters, or father, or mother, or wife, or children, or lands, for my name's sake, shall receive an hundredfold, and shall inherit everlasting life, xix. 29. And these shall go away into everlasting punishment ; but the righteous into life eternal, xxv. 46. And he that reapeth receiveth wages, and gathereth fruit unto life eternal; that both he that soweth, and he that reapeth may rejoice together, John iv. 36. VER. 23. Τὰ γὰρ ὀψώνια τῆς ἁμαρτίας, θάνατος· τὸ δὲ χάρισμα τοῦ Θεοῦ, ζωὴ αἰώνιος ἐν Χριστῷ Ἰησοῦ τῷ Κυρίῳ ἡμῶν. VER. 2. 4. D. 60. Ωστε, ἀδελφοί μου, καὶ ὑμεῖς ἔθανα τώθητε τῷ νόμῳ διὰ τοῦ σώματος του Χριστοῦ· εἰς τὸ γενέσθαι ὑμᾶς ἑτέρα, το ἐκ νεκρῶν ἐγερθέντι, ἵνα καρποφορέσωμες T. become dead to the law bby the body of Wherefore, my brethren, a ye also are Christ; that ye should be married to another, even to him who is raised from the dead, that we should bring forth fruit unto God. a But now we are delivered from the law, that being dead wherein we were held; that we should serve in For the wages of sin is death; b but newness of spirit, and not in the oldthe gift of God is eternal life throughness of the letter, ver. 6. For sin Jesus Christ our Lord. a See on Matt. iii. ver. 10. clause 4; ver. 12. clause 5; and chap. v. ver. 22. clause 8. bSee on Matt. xix. ver. 16. clause 3. See on John vi. ver. 51. clause 5. CHAP. VIL-VER. 1. Ἡ ἀγνοεῖτε, ἀδελφοί, (γινώσκουσι γὰρ νόμον λαλῶ) ὅτι ὁ νόμος κυριεύει τοῦ ἀνθρώπου, ἐφ ̓ ὅσον χρόνον ζῇ; Know ye not, brethren, (for I speak to them that know the law,) how that the law hath dominion over a man as long as he liveth? shall not have dominion over you; for ye are not under the law, but under grace, vi. 14. For I through the law am dead to the law, that I might live unto God. I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me, Gal. ii. 19, 20. Christ hath redeemed us from the curse of the law, being made a curse for us: for it is written, Cursed is every one that hangeth on a tree, iii 13. Blotting out the handwriting of ordinances that was against us, which was contrary to us, and took it out of the way, nailing it to his cross, Col. ii. 14. Wherefore if ye be dead with Christ from the rudiments of the world, why, as though living in the world, are ye subject to ordinances, 20. See also on chap. vi. ver. 14. clause 2. b See on Matt. xx. ver. 28. clause 3. See on John iii. ver. 29. d See on Matt. vii. ver. 17. clause 1. VER. 5. Οτε γὰρ ἦμεν ἐν τῇ σαρκὶ, τὰ παθή ματα τῶν ἁμαρτιῶν, τὰ διὰ τοῦ νόμου, ἐνηργεῖτο ἐν τοῖς μέλεσιν ἡμῶν, εἰς τὸ καρασοφορῆσαι τῷ θανάτῳ, For when we were a in the flesh, the *motions of sins, b which were by the law, e did work in our members to bring forth fruit unto death. * Gr. passions. e a See on John iii. ver. 6. clause 1. Therefore by the deeds of the law there shall no flesh be justified in his sight: for by the law is the knowledge of sin, iii. 20. Because the law worketh wrath for where no law is, there is no transgression, iv. 15. Moreover the law entered that the offence might abound. But where sin abounded, grace did much more abound, v. 20. The sting of death is sin; and the strength of sin is the law, 1 Cor. xv. 56. But sin, taking occasion by the commandment, wrought in me all manner of concupiscence. For without the law sin was dead. For I was alive without the law once; but when the commandment came, sin revived, and I died. And the commandment, which was ordained to life, I found to be unto death. For sin, taking occasion by the commandment, deceived me, and by it slew me. Wherefore the law is holy, and the commandment holy, and just, and good. Was then that which is good made death unto me? God forbid. But sin, that it might appear sin, working death in me by that which is good; that sin by the commandment might become exceeding sinful, ver. 8-13. Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness, ido A. D. 60. latry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies, Envyings, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such like: of the which I tell you before, as I have also told you in time past, that they which do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God, Gal. v. 19-21. Then when lust hath conceived, it bringeth forth sin; and sin, when it is finished, bringeth forth death, Jam. i. 15. d But I see another law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of sin which is in my members, ver. 23. Neither yield ye your members as instruments of unrighteousness unto sin: but yield yourselves unto God, as those that are alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness unto God, vi. 13. I speak after the manner of men, because of the infirmity of your flesh: For as ye have yielded your members servants to uncleanness and to iniquity unto iniquity; even so now yield your members servants to righteousness, unto holiness, 19. Mortify therefore your members which are upon the earth; fornication, uncleanness, inordinate affection, evil concupiscence, and covetousness, which is idolatry, Col. iii. 5. From whence come wars and fightings among you? come they not hence, even of your lusts that war in your members, Jam. iv. 1. e What fruit had ye then in those things whereof ye are now ashamed? for the end of those things is death, Rom. vi. 21. See also on Matt. iii. ver. 10. clause 4; ver. 12. clause 5; and chap. v. ver. 22. clause 8. judge thee, who by the letter and circumcision dost transgress the law? For he is not a Jew, which is one outwardly; neither is that circumcision, which is outward in the flesh: But he is a Jew, which is one inwardly; and circumcision is that of the heart, in the spirit, and not in the letter; whose praise is not of men, but of God, ii. 27-29. Therefore we are buried with him by baptism into death: that like as Christ was raised A. D. 60. availeth any thing, nor uncircumcision, but a new creature, vi. 15. For we are the circumcision, which worship God in the spirit, and rejoice in Christ Jesus, and have no confidence in the flesh, Phil. iii. 3. And have put on the new man; which is renewed in knowledge after the image of him that created him, Col. iii. 10. VER. 7. Τί οὖν ἐροῦμεν ; Ο νόμος ἁμαρτία; Με γένοιτο· ἀλλὰ τὴν ἁμαρτίαν οὐκ ἔγνων, εἰ μὴ διὰ νόμου· τήν τε γὰρ ἐπιθυμίαν οὐκ ᾔδειν, εἰ μὴ ὁ νόμος ἔλεγεν· Οὐκ ἐπιθυμή • Or, concupiscence. a But sin, taking occasion by the commandment, wrought in me all manner of concupiscence. For without the law sin was dead, ver. 8. For sin, taking occasion by the commandment, deceived me, and by it slew me, 11. Was then that which is good made death unto me? God forbid. But sin, that it might appear sin, working death in me by that which is good; that sin by the commandment might become exceeding sinful, 13. The sting of death is sin; and the strength of sin is the law, 1 Cor. xv. 56. up from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life, vi. 4. Likewise reckon ye also yourselves to be dead What shall we say then? Is the law indeed unto sin, but alive unto God through Jesus Christ our Lord, 11. sin? God forbid. Nay, I had not I speak after the manner of men be-known sin, but by the law: for I had not cause of the infirmity of your flesh; known lust, except the law had said, for as ye have yielded your members Thou shalt not covet. servants to uncleanness and to iniquity; even so now yield your members servants to righteousness, unto holiness, 19. But now being made free from sin, and become servants to God, ye have your fruit unto holiness, and the end everlasting life, 22. And be not conformed to this world: but be yetransformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God, xii. 2. And I will give them one heart, and I will put a new spirit within you; and I will take the stony heart out of their flesh, and will give them an heart of flesh, Ez. xi. 19. A new heart also will I give you, and a new spirit will I put within you; and I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh, and I will give you an heart of flesh, xxxvi. 26. Who also hath made us able ministers of the new testament; not of the letter, but of the spirit: for the letter killeth, but the spirit giveth life, 2 Cor. iii. 6. Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new, v. 17. For I through the law am dead to the law, that I might live unto God. I am crucified with Christ; nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh, I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me, Gal. ii. 19, 20. For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision b 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, ver. 5. Therefore by the deeds of the law there shall no flesh be justified in his sight: for by the law is the knowledge of sin, iii. 20. The law of the LORD is perfect, converting the soul: the testimony of the LORD is sure, making wise the simple. The statutes of the LORD are right, rejoicing the heart: the commandment of the LORD is pure, enlightening the eyes. fear of the LORD is clean, enduring for ever: the judgments of the LORD are true, and righteous altogether. More to be desired are they than gold, yea, than much fine gold: sweeter also than honey and the honey-comb. Moreover by them is thy servant warned: and in keeping The |