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97681 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1053.8 (Matthew Henry)
… 6:7 ) he that is dead is freed from sin; that is, he that is dead to it is freed from the rule and dominion of it, as the servant that is dead is freed from his master, Job …
97682 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1054.1 (Matthew Henry)
… , Romans 7:1-7:6. II. The excellency and usefulness of the law asserted and proved from the apostle’s own experience, notwithstanding, Romans 7:7-7:14. III. A description …
97683 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1054.2 (Matthew Henry)
… ( Romans 7:6 ): We are delivered from the law. What is meant by this? And how is it an argument why sin should not reign over us, and why we should walk in newness of life …
97684 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1054.3 (Matthew Henry)
… 7:2 ), the woman is bound to her husband during life, so bound to him that she cannot marry another; if she do, she shall be reckoned an adulteress, Romans 7:3. It …
97685 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1054.5 (Matthew Henry)
… , Romans 7:3. This resemblance is not very close, nor needed it to be. You are become dead to the law, Romans 7:4. He does not say, “The law is dead” (some think because he …
97686 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1054.6 (Matthew Henry)
… , Romans 7:4. One end of marriage is fruitfulness: God instituted the ordinance that he might seek a godly seed, Malachi 2:15. The wife is compared to the fruitful …
97687 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1054.7 (Matthew Henry)
To what he had said in the former paragraph, the apostle here raises an objection, which he answers very fully: What shall we say then? Isa. the law sin ? When he had …
97688 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1054.8 (Matthew Henry)
… , Romans 7:12. The law in general is so, and every particular commandment is so. Laws are as the law-makers are. God, the great lawgiver, is holy, just, and good, therefore …
97689 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1054.9 (Matthew Henry)
… , Romans 7:7. As that which is straight discovers that which is crooked, as the looking-glass shows us our natural face with all its spots and deformities, so there …
97690 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1054.10 (Matthew Henry)
… , Romans 7:8. Observe, Paul had in him all manner of concupiscence, though one of the best unregenerate men that ever was; as touching the righteousness of the …
97691 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1054.12 (Matthew Henry)
… ( Romans 7:7 ): I died; the commandment I found to be unto death; and if here he speaks of the same state as his present state, and the condition he was now in, surely he …
97692 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1054.14 (Matthew Henry)
… , Romans 7:15. And to the same purport, Romans 7:19, 7:21, When I would do good, evil is present with me. Such was the strength of corruptions, that he could not attain …
97693 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1054.16 (Matthew Henry)
… , Romans 7:16; symphemi — I give my vote to the law; here is the approbation of the judgment. Wherever there is grace there is not only a dread of the severity of the …
97694 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1054.17 (Matthew Henry)
… ( Romans 7:17, 7:20 ), not as an excuse for the guilt of his sin (it is enough to condemn us, if we were under the law, that the sin which does the evil dwelleth in us), but as …
97695 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1054.18 (Matthew Henry)
… ( Romans 7:25 ): I thank God, through Jesus Christ our Lord. In the midst of his complaints he breaks out into praises. It is a special remedy against fears and sorrows …
97696 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1055.7 (Matthew Henry)
2. Observe how we may answer to this character, Romans 8:5
97697 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1055.8 (Matthew Henry)
… 23:7. Which way do the thoughts move with most pleasure? On what do they dwell with most satisfaction? The mind is the seat of wisdom. Which way go the projects …
97698 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1055.22 (Matthew Henry)
… 21:7. Those that now partake of the Spirit of Christ, as his brethren, shall, as his brethren, partake of his glory ( John 17:24 ), shall sit down with him upon his throne …
97699 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1055.29 (Matthew Henry)
… Samuel 7:27. The apostle speaks of this in the first person: We know not. He puts himself among the rest. Folly, and weakness, and distraction in prayer, are what …
97700 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1055.34 (Matthew Henry)
… ( Ecclesiastes 7:14 ): synergei, a very singular, with a noun plural, denoting the harmony of Providence and its uniform designs, all the wheels as one wheel, Ezekiel …