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death, the grestest evil : xurepyafypevri, working [ death in me\. — aXXd ij a/xapr/a, but sin) namely, was made death to me ; for the participle xurepyafy/ievri, working , without the substantive verb, does not constitute the predicate. — ha pavy dfiapria, that it might appear sin) Ploce1 : sin, [which, as opposed to the law, which is good , is] by no means good. This agrees with what goes before. — did rov ayadov — Quvarov, by that which is good — death) A paradox ; and the adjective good is used with great force for the substantive [of which it is the epithet] the law. — xarepya^uhy], working) A participle, which must be explained thus : sin was made death to me, inasmuch as being that which accomplished my death even by that which is good. It is no tautology ; for that expression, by that which is good , superadds strength to the second part of this sentence. — ha ysvyrai, that it might become) This phrase is dependent on working . So ha, that , repeated twice, forms a gradation. If any one should rather choose to make it an anaphora,2 the second part of the sentence will thus also explain the first. — xa§ vnspfioXriv a/uapruXog) Castellio translates it, as sinful as possible : because, namely, [sin,] by that which was ps] good , i.e. by the commandment, works in me that which is evil , i.e. death. — did , by) It is construed with might become [that sin might by the commandment become exceeding sinful].
14. Uvsv/ianxog fan, is spiritual) it requires, that every feeling of man should correspond to the feeling \i.e. the will] of God ; but God is a Spirit. — aapxixbg, carnal) ver. 18. — £/>/, I am) Paul, after he had compared together the twofold state of believers, the former in the flesh, ver 5, and the present in the Spirit, ver. 6, proceeds in the next place from the description of the first to the description of the second, and does so with a view both to answer two objections, which, in consequence of that comparison might be framed in these words : therefore the law is sin , ver. 7, and, therefore the law is death , ver. 13 ; and to inter- weave in the solution of those objections the whole process of a man, in his transition from his state under the law to his state under grace, thinking, sighing, striving, and struggling forth,
1 See Appendix. The same term twice used, once expressing the idea of the word itself, and once again expressing an attribute of it.
2 See Appendix. The frequent repetition of the same word in the be- ginnings of sections or sentences.
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