The Epistle to the Romans : With notes by T. Chamberlain

By: Paul

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: 21 What fruit had ye then in those things whereof ye are now ashamed ? for the end of those things is death. 22 But now being made free from sin, and become servants to God, ye have your fruit unto holiness, and the end everlasting life. 23 For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord. CHAPTER VII. 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 21,22. A threefold challenge to the sinner'affirming that sin at the present yields no pleasure, produces shame in the retrospect, and dread for the future. Whereas obedience is present freedom, produces works on which we may look back with satisfaction, and yields a good assurance for the future. 23. Death is man's own work; eternal life is God's gif1. 1. Here the Apostle introduces again another similitude'that of the marriage contract. Over a man. The Greek language has two words to express man'one, which indicates the male sex; the other, the creature man in the general. Here it is the he liveth ? i For the woman which hath an husband is bound by the law to her husband so long as he liveth; but if the husband be dead, she is loosed from the law of her husband. 3 So then if, while her husband liveth, she be married to another man, she shall be called an adulteress: but if her husband be dead, she is free from that law; so that she is no adulteress, though she be married to another man. 4 Wherefore, my brethren, ye also are become dead to the law by the body of Christ; that ye should be married to another, even to Him who is raised from the dead, that we latter of the two words: in fact, in this place, it is the woman that is meant. 4. Dead to the law. The argument would seem almost to req...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0217949770
• ISBN13: 9780217949774
• Release Date: May 2014
• Publisher: General Books LLC
• Length: 126 Pages
• Weight: 0.42 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.0" x 9.0"