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is here said, depends on the nature of the things related, which are the law and man. When either party dies, the other is considered to be dead. Thus the protasis and apodosis cohere.
2. "rvavdpog) So the lxx. — dedsrai, is bound ) It may be con- strued with to her husband , and with by [to] the law. — rov vopov rov uvdp'og) It would not be an unsuitable apposition, were we to say, from the law [that is, from ] her husband.
3. xprifiur'nKi) viz. eaurriV) she will come under the appellation of an adulteress , and that too by the power of the law. She shall bring upon herself the name of an adulteress. — eav yevrirou dvdpi srepoj, LXX. Deut. xxiv. 2.
4. "XloTf) This word has a stronger meaning than if ovrcag had been used. — idamrujdrirt, ye have become dead) which denotes more than ye are dead. The comparison is thus summed up : the husband or wife, by the death of either, is restored to liberty ; for in the protasis, the party dying is the husband ; in the apodosis, the party dying is that, which corresponds to the wife. — did rov tfw/xaros, by the body) A great mystery. In the expiation [atonement] for sin, why is it that mention generally is made of the body, rather than of the soul of Christ ? Ans. The theatre and workshop of sin is our flesh ; and for this, it is the holy flesh of the Son of God, which is the remedy. — iyepdevn, who is raised) and so is alive [which the law no longer is to the believer]. — zap^ocpop^u^ gi/, we should bring forth fruit) He comes from the second person to the first ; fruit corresponds to off- spring ; for the simile is derived from marriage.
5. rH/iev sv rf} ffapxt, we were in the flesh) that is [we were] carnal. See the opposite ver. 6, at the end. — did , by) ver. 8. — rp Oavdruj to that death) of which ver. 13, ch. viii. 6, speak.
6. *A ‘rodavovrsg, being dead) So ver. 4, ye became dead , said, of that party, which corresponds to the wife : comp. Gal. ii. 19. I have shown in der Antwort wegen des N. T. p. 55. A. 1745, that Chrysostom also read amdavovreg, not dtfoQuvovrog.1 — w) A plain construction in this sense : we have been set free by death from the law, which held us fast. — xarsiyo/ueQa) an expres-
1 So also A (B?) C, both Syr. Versions, Memph. The first correction of the Amiatine MS. of Vulg. read d^oddvovng. D (A) G fg Vulg. read rov Ouvotrov [The law of death], Rec. Text (and B ?) dTcoduvovrog. — Ed.
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