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Good Law, Deadly Result
Commentators explain that the law, though designed by God to lead to life, has the opposite effect on sinful people. It's not that the law is flawed, but that our corrupt nature rebels against its perfect standard. Scholars use analogies like water on quicklime (Spurgeon) or a good medicine on an incurable disease (Calvin) to show how something good can produce a negative result when it interacts with something corrupt.
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Albert Barnes
On Romans 7:10
18th Century
Theologian
And the commandment. The law to which he had referred before.
Which was ordained to life. This was intended to produce lif…
AT Robertson
On Romans 7:10
This I found unto death (ευρεθη μοι--αυτη εις θανατον). Literally, "the commandment the one for (meant for) life, this was found f…
Charles Ellicott
On Romans 7:10
19th Century
Bishop
Which was ordained to. — “The very commandment which was for life I found to be for death” (Ellicott). The Law was instit…
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Charles Spurgeon
On Romans 7:10–13
19th Century
Preacher
And the commandment, which was ordained to life, I found to be unto death. For sin, taking occasion by the commandment, deceived me, and by it …
Expositor's Bible Commentary
On Romans 7:10
Paul’s statement that he was once alive apart from the law should be taken in a relative sense, for there was actually no time in his life before h…
John Calvin
On Romans 7:10
16th Century
Theologian
Was found by me, etc. Two things are stated here: first, that the commandment shows us a way of life in the righteousness of God, and seco…
John Gill
On Romans 7:10
17th Century
Pastor
And the commandment which was ordained to life
The law which promised a continuance of an immortal life to Adam, in …
Matthew Henry
On Romans 7:7–13
17th Century
Minister
There is no way of coming to that knowledge of sin, which is necessary for repentance and therefore for peace and pardon, except by testing our hea…