with Chris~ so ns t-0 bec!ome I\ '""" t1111n, i,-nore.l lf\w (in liko eanee) of my complex dl'li,el\-.d from bondRge; this ll\St expres- human nl\ture, which ncoessite.tea this I\U• sion. c-f ooun;,,. in,olving a different idea te.gonism: "fh6 lf\w, that when I would do fn.,m that of the intMrd man). It is to good" (in l\ccorde.noe with the law of the be obsl'l'.,ed, further, that thron~hout this mind), "evil is present with me" (In vhtuo section beginning at ver. 7 th'ere is no of tho other le.w). Ancient and other com• di~tillC'iic>n dr11wn (as elsewbe~ by St. Paul) mentatora hl\ve been muoh puzzled as to ~t=n -n,,jjµa and er~; the idea of ..-v,v,ucz, the meaning of ver. 21, from truciag .-011 m fael does not oome in at nil. except with 110µ.011 e.t the beginning to donote the Mo81tic regard to the J.aw, which is cl\lled w-11,vµ.,... Le.w, GS 110µ.o, usuBlly does when precoded .-,,.&,. The n.ason is that the apcstle is by the artiolo. But not so when there is oonfining himself here to an cxrunination of something after it to denote a different what ma.n, even at his best, is in his mere meaning; e.s there is here in the 8.-, e.t the human nature; of what th0ngbtful observers, end of the verse, meaning that, not (e.s some though not theolo~ians, may percei,e him to ho.,e understood it) became. (6) Difficulty be. It is a philosophical rather tbe.n a has been found in the conoluding cll\use of theologioe.l analysis. It is one the.t might ver. 25, ¥<1 oli11, otc. It follows the expres- aommend itself to heathen philosophers, sion of th11nksgiving, "Thanks he to God," some of whom he.ve, in fuct, expre..ssed them- etc., which certainly introduced the thought eel,es much t.o the same effect. Hence it of deliverance from the state that he.d been is not till eh. viii, where man's re~neration doscribed; e.nd henoe it is supposed by some by the Dime ..-,,n;,.,. is portrayed, tbe.t the that this clause must be e. continusnce of spiritual principle in himself, through which that thought, e.ud so to be ta.ken as e.n iatro- he is capable of such regeneration, comes dnotion to eh. viii. rather than e. summing into riew. .A.nd it will be seen that it is up of the preceding argument. It is ea.id ibis very idea of ..-,,Ei;p.a th&t pen-a.des that e.lso, in support of this view, the.t more whole chapter. This essential distinction entire 11-'lSocie.tion of the ~;;, with the Law between the two chapters is sufficient in of God than we.a before intimated is hero it.!elf io disprove the theory that the re- expressed; c,u.-os ~;;, being written instead ~nerate stirte is described in eh. vii. (5) of simply l-,w, e.nd 80111'..•6"' being a stronger The senses in which the word p/,µ.o, is used word than cr11vf/60µ.ru (ver. 22). Thus the in this chapter require to be perceived ,i.nd meaning would be, "Though in my flesh I disi:i ngnished, its 1lSllB.I. sense ( see under still serve the la.w of sin (the tf,pOJ/1/p.4 ud.p1<os eh. ii 13) not beiag uniformly retaiaed. still remains in me, notwitbstl\ndiog my There is., however, always some appended regeneration), yet now in my 'Vll't'Y real self expression to indicate e.ny new e.pplice.tion I not only approve, but am in subjection to, of the word. We find it (a) in its usual the Law of God." It is, however, a.t lee.at e. IIIBIIJle, with the nsue.l significance of the question whether these slight differences of abaence or the presence of the article, in expression come to much; and both the vera. 7, 9, 12, 14, 16; and in ver. 22, still in introductory llpc, o~v and the form of the the se.me sense, we have "the Le.w of God." clause suggest rather its being the sum- We find e.lJ!O, (b) in ver. 23, "the la.w of my marized result of eh. vii. The o.dditiono.l mind," whereby I delight in the "Law of emphasis added to ~;;, (which had, indeed, God." Here "law" essnmes a different sense already been emphatic), e.nd the substitution from the other, bot one in which the wurd of 8011>..,6,., for u11vf/'lioµ.a.i., may servo only to is often used; as when we speak of the bring ont all the more strongly in the encl la.ws of nature, having in view, not so much what it had been the purpose of the whole a fiat external to nature which nature must pass11ge to lead up t.o, viz. that man's real obey, e..s the uniform rule according to self, when conscience is fully a.roused, yeo.rns which natUl'e is found to work. The Le.tin for e.nd is reo.dy for redemption. There is word flDrlTta expre&.es the idea. Thus "the no difficulty in so understanding the ale.use la.w of my mind" means the normal con- (as we ahould surely understand it no.tu- stitution of my higher and bett.er self, rally but for the preceding thanksgiving), whtreby it ce.nnc.t but e..ssent to "the Law if we regard the thanksgiving a.s a pe.reli.• c,f Goo. Then (c) we have "the Jaw of sin thetical exclamation, a.nticipo.ting for B in my members;" i.e., in e. similar sense, moment the purport of eh. viii. Such an ILll rrnte.gonistic rule or constitution dominant exclo.me.lion is cbaracteristio of St. Paul, in my ,nip£. Lutl.v, (d) in ver. 21, the e.nd it adds life to the pe.ssage,
HOMILETICS. Ver. 6.-Tlie 11e111 epirit of (Jhriatian aervice. What God creates he oreates for a purpose. When be givee life, there ii a special career before the livini,; oreatw-e; ihua ou, m. 1-21i,] THE EPISTLE 0:11' PAUL TO THE ROMANS. 191