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1. Ovbev apcc vvv xaruxpipcu, There is therefore now no condem- nation) The apostle comes now to deliverance and liberty. Moreover he does not employ the adversative be, hut ; he uses the conclusive apcc, therefore , comp, on ch. ii. 1 ; because at the end of ch. vii. he had already reached the confines of this condition. He also now evidently returns from his admirable digression to the path, which is pursued [he had entered on] at ch. vii. 6. And, as a proof of this, the particle now , which denotes present time (like the German wurklicli, actually, truly) was used there, and is resumed here. Condemned [“ God c. sin”] in ver. 3, refers to condemnation here.
1, 2. UepiKocrouffiV 6 yap vopcog, to them that walk: for the law) the aetiology [assigning of the reason, see Append.] by a paren- thesis suspends the train of thought ( for the law of death (ver. 2) : in us who ivalk [resuming the same word and train of thought as ver. 1], ver. 4) ; and as this parenthesis is terminated by epanalepsis,1 the expression hut according to the spirit com- pletes the period, in which the hut is opposed rather to the not in ver. 1, than to the not in ver. 4. The phrase, hut after the spirit (aXXa xara ^mS/xa) is omitted in the first verse on the most respectable testimony.2 Baumgarten retains it. But Paul immediately treats of that expression %ara aupnu, not according to or after the flesh ;3 then as he advances,4 he adds,
1 See Appendix. When the same word or words are in the beginning of the preceding member and in the end of the following member : as here pc ij Kara. aocpKac mpmocTovaiv, before, and at the close of the parenthesis.
2 A and the later corrector of D Vulg. Syr. add with Rec. Text, the words pvti koctoc aocpKoc TripinrcLravvi]). But they omit ocKku. koctoc Kvevgcoc. BCD (A) Ggf Memph. and Theb. Versions omit the whole pc jj koctoc — nvivpcoc. Rec. Text has, of ancient authorities, only ff, one or two later uncial MSS. and Theodoret. — Ed.
3 Which makes it likely, that not koctoc nvevpcoc, but koctoc occpaoc was what went immediately before. — Ed.
4 And not till then. — Ed.