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John Gill
INTRODUCTION TO Romans 7 The Apostle, in this chapter, discourses concerning the freedom of justified and regenerated persons from the law, and concerning the nature, use, and excellency of it; in which he removes several objections to it, and gives an account from his own experience of the struggle and combat there is between flesh and spirit in a regenerate person; and which shows, that though...
John Gill
So then if while her husband liveth,.... True indeed it is, that whilst her husband is alive, if she be married to another man, she shall be called an adulteress; she will be noted and accounted of as such everybody, except in the above mentioned cases: but if her husband be dead; then there can be no exception to her marriage: she is free from the law; of marriage, by which she was before bound:...
Matthew Henry
We may observe in this chapter, I. Our freedom from the law further urged as an argument to press upon us sanctification, ver. 1-6. II. The excellency and usefulness of the law asserted and proved from the apostle's own experience, notwithstanding, ver. 7-14. III. A description of the conflict between grace and corruption in the heart, ver. 14, 15, to the end. Observations Respecting the Law. (a....
Charles H. Spurgeon
Know ye not, brethren, (for I speak to them that know the law,) how that the law hath dominion over a man as long as he liveth? For the woman which hath an husband is bound by the law to her husband so long as he liveth; but if the husband be dead, she is loosed from the law of her husband. So then if, while her husband liveth, she be married to another man, she shall be called an adulteress, but...