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His own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh]. We, along with our flesh, utterly tainted as it was with sin, ought to have been consigned to death ; but God , in the likeness of that flesh (for justice required the likeness), that is, in the flesh of His own Son, which was real and at the same time holy, and (that too) for sin , condemned that sin (which was) in (our) flesh,1 that we might be made free ; sv [before opoiupari] is construed with condemned , compare by, ch. vii. 4 [Dead by (dnx) the body of Christ]. — m pi dfiapriag rh a/Aotpn'av, for sin , sin ) The substan- tive is here repeated, as in Luke xi. 17, note, when the house is divided , the house falls. But the figure ploce2 is here added, as is indicated by the use of the article only in the latter place [on the second employment of the word d/Aapr/a]. These two terms mutually refer to one another, as do the words the likeness of flesh and flesh , -rs pi, for : wepi a/Aapr/ag is equivalent to a noun, as in Ps. xl. (xxxix.) 6 ; Heb. x. 6, 8. But here, in the epistle to the Romans, I explain it thus : God condemned sin on this account , because it is sin. Sin was condemned as sin . So sin is put twice in the same signification (not in a double significa- tion as happens in an antanaclasis), but the article rq v adds an epitasis.3 — xarexpiv s, condemned) took away, finished, put an end to, destroyed all its strength, deprived sin of its power (compare the word impossible above [What the law was powerless to do, God had power to do, and deprived the law and sin of their powei *] — sin which was laid on the Son of God. For the exe- cution of the sentence also follows the condemnation of sin. It is the opposite of the expression to justify , ver. 1 ; ch. v. 18, and 2 Cor. iii. 9.
4. To dr/iuiupa, the law’s just commandment \_jus . Engl. Vers.
1 righteousness’^) an antithesis to condemnation, ver. 1. — rrXrjpudfi, might be fulfilled ) That fulfilment is presently after described, ver. 5-11 ; thence it is that we have the for, ver. 5. Works of justice [ righteousness ] follow him that is justified [i.e. follow as the con-
1 God condemned that sin, which was in our flesh, in the likeness of that sinful flesh, [i.e. in His incarnate Son,] and that too, for sin.
2 See Appendix. The same word repeated, once expressing the simple idea of the word, next expressing an attribute of it.
3 See Appendix. Epitasis, when to a word, which has been previously used, there is added, on its being used again, some word augmenting its force.
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