The Pulpit Commentary — Romans — Section 192

u the'" Rn>. nnd !lO to i:-ce with God. Thus, These. v. 113). There 1/,u>.,~ aeeme to donote in p.-,,1,, d<'t•s the apoetle teaoh us to regard tlte animal life or eoul animating the <To,µa for thl' insl'rutable mystery of sin, and the the purposes of mero human life, but disliu• remc•<h for it in Christ. guisbod from the ,n,•vµa, whioh usooie.tes ,e~. 12. IS.-So that the Law is holy, him with the Divine lifo. Ueno.Uy, how• and the commandment holy, and just, and ever, wv,vµa and <TdpE alone a.re spoken of: good. Hu then that whioh is good beoome so that the term <TdpE seems to inoludo tJ10 death unto me t God forbid. But sin, that ,j,u:,j,, expressing our whole weak human it might appear sin, through that whioh is naturo now, apart from the ,rv,iiµa, whioh good working death llllto me; that sin might connects us with God (see Gal. v. 17, eto.). beoome aJ:oeeding sinful through the oom- That in this and other passages <Td.pE does mandm.ent. The question of ver. 7, "Is the not mean our mere bodily organization only, Law sin?" has now been answered so far as is further evident from sine not due to mere this-that, far from being so, the command- bodily lusts-such as want of affeotion, ment ws.s in itself "unto life" (of. Lev. hatred, envy, pride-being called "works of xviii. 5; oh. x. 5), only that sin took occa- the flesh" (of. Gal. v. 19-22; 1 Cor. iii. sion by it, and so got power to sl&y. But S). What, then, is meant by the adjective still it would appear that law was ultimately .,,.,,,uµan,c&s ? Applied to man, it is, in 1 the cause of death. Was, then, its purpose Cor. iii. 2, 3, opposed to <Tap1<11<os (or <Tap1<1• v.nd effect, after all, deadly? for, though not l'br), and in 1 Cor. ii. 14, to ,j,ux11<or(of. Jude Bin. it seems to ba'"e been deat.h to us. No, 19); the latter word apparently meaning it is replied; awny with the thought! Its one in whom the ,j,ux¾, (as above under- effect was only to re'"eal sin in its true light; stood), and not the =•iiµa, dominates. Fur- it wa.s only an Itburiel's sneRr (' Pa.r. Lost,' ther, St. Paul (1 Cor. xv. 44) speaks of a bk. iv.). bringing out and exposing the deadly <T0>µa ,j,vx11<011 and a ,ro,µa 'lrl'EVJlBTll<OI', thing that before was latent. And (as is meaning by the former a tenement fitted elsewhere set forth in pursuance of the line for and adequate to the mere psychic life, of thought) its eff~t in the end was really and by the latter a new organism adapted "unto life; " for its awakening of the sense for the higher life of the spiTit, such e.e we of sin, and of a craving for redemption from hope to have hereafter; and in the same it, was the necessary preparation for such passage be uses the. neuters, TO ,j,ux,,,b,, and redemption (cf. Gal. iii 19, seq.). TO 1rv,11µaT11<0,,, with reference to " the first Yer. 14.-:Forwe kn.ow(we are all already Adam," who was made, or became (i-yl- aware of this; we recognize it as a prin- "E'To) •lr l/,11x¾,11 (wrrav, and" the le.et Ade.m," ciple; we can surely have no doubt of it; who was made •lr .,,,,,iiµa (.,o,ro,oiiv. Thus cf. eh. ii. 2; iii 10) tba.t the Law ie spiri- .,,,,,i)µa, generally, denotes the Divine, which tual : but I am carnal, sold Ullder sin. The man apprehends and aspires to, nay, in statement of ver. 12 is here in effect re- which he has himself a part in virtue of peated as being one that cannot be gain- the original breathing into him of the breath said with respect to the Law, but with use of life (1rvon,, ("';jr) directly from God (Gen. now of the epithet TPEvµ.aTucos; and this in ill. 7), whereby he became e. living soul (l-yl- opposition to mym/ being <Tap,cwos. The v,To •ls ,j,ux¾iv (w<Tav) for the purposes of bis new word, =roµ.a-ruc&s, is obviously meant mundane life (itself above that of the brutes), to express a further idea with respect to law, but retained also e. share of the Divine suitable to the line of thought now abont .,,,,.iiµa connecting him with God,and capable to be pursued. Without lingering to men- of being quickened so as to he the dominant tion varying euggeetione of various commen- principle of hie being through contact with tators ae to the sense in which the Law is the 1rv•vµa (wo1rornii11. It would seem that here called ~ritual, we may offer the fol- the Law is here called 1r11,11µan1<os, as be- lowing considerations in elucidation. nv,vµ.a longing to the Divine sphere of things, and and <Ta.pE nre, ae is well known, constantly expr<:ssive of the Divine order. "The Law, contrasted in the New Testament. The both the moral law in the bosom of man, former BOmetimes denotes the " Holy Spirit and the expression of that law in the Deco.- of God," and l!Ometimes that highest part logue, is, as Augustine profoundly expressea in ourselves which is in touch with the it, a revelation of the higher order of things Divine Spirit. ~a.p{, tbr,ugh it may, in ac- founded in the being of God. It is hence cordance with its oTiginal meaning, some- a 1rvwµaT11<&,," (Tholuclc). But man (1-ycli times denote our mere bodily organization, 3~), though still able to admire, nay, to de- iE UBually used to express our whole present light in and aspire to, this higher order, human constitution, mental as well ae cannot yet conform himself to it because of bwily, eoneidered 1111 apart from the 'll'JJEiiµ,a. the 1rd.pE, infected with sin, which at present When St. Paul in one place distinguishes enthrals him: 'E-yw 3~ ,rap,cwor, 'lrE'lrpaµ<l'Ot the constituent eleme1Jts of human nature, inrl, Tnl' a.µu.pTlav. Thus is fitly introduced bo 14'Wk» of •v•vJJ,11,, ,j,vx~, and <T-1'4 (1 the e.nalysil of human consciousness wit.h au. vu. 1-26.] THF.: EPISTLE OF PAUL 'l'O THE RO:MANS. 189