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person willing, viz. me,1 in antithesis to the second \_with~] me, which presently after occurs absolutely. With the words, for, or to me willing, comp. Phil. ii. 13. — on, because) [But Engl. Vers. I find a law, that, when I would do good, evil is present with me]. — ‘Tapuxzirai, lies near, ps present with me]) Here the balance is changed ; for at ver. 18, the good will lies near ps present ;] the same word, itapdxzTrai] as the lighter part [side of the scale] ; whereas by this time, now the evil, though not the evil will, lies near ps present], as the lighter part [side of the scale].
22. ’ZuvTjdopa/, I delight ) This too is already a further step
in advance than I consent, ver. 1 6. — r'ov z<rco, the inward)
He already upholds the name and character of the inward, but not yet however of the new man ; so also in ver. 25 he says, u with my mind,” not, with my spirit.
23. BXscrw) I see, from the higher department of the soul, as from a watch-tower, [the department, or region of the soul] which is called voug, the mind , and is itself the repository of con- science.— zrzpov, another [law] and one alien [to the law of my mind]. — [Tz'kztu, in the members) The soul is, as it were, the king ; the members are as the citizens ; sin is, as an enemy, admitted through the fault of the king, who is doomed to be punished by the oppression of the citizens. — rip vo/aw rou voog /xov) the dictate [law] of my mind, which delights in the Divine law. — atyjj.aXoin^rd [tz, bringing me into captivity) by any actual victoiy which it pleases.2 The apostle again uses rather a harsh term, arising from holy impatience :3 the allegory is taken from war, comp, the similar term, warring.
24. Ta Xairrojpog syu avQpcotfog) [u 0 wretched man that I am /” Engl. Vers. But Beng.] wretched me, who am [inasmuch as I am] a man ! Man, if he were without sin, is noble as well as blessed ; with sin, he rather wishes not to be a man at all, than to be such a man as man actually is : The man [whom Paul personifies] speaks of the state of man in itself, as it is by nature. This cry for help is the last thing in the struggle, and,
1 The participle cannot be placed first in English Tr. What he means is ; the law is found by him who wills to do good, which is now the case with me. — Ed.
2 i.e. leading me at will to do whatever it pleases. — Ed
8 To express his holy impatience to be rid of the tyrant. — Ed.