Romans 7:1325

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• Romans 713-25
• Is Paul talking about his present experience?
  Does this passage describe the normal Christian
  life?
• A. Yes.
• B. No, hes talking about himself before he
  became a Christian.
• C. No, hes giving a hypothetical example of
  what it would be like to live a Christian
  life under the law to show the inadequacy of the
  law and the adequacy of the Spirit.
• No textual problems
• 2 translation problems
• A. In v. 14 he switches from the past tense to
  the present.
• B. In vv. 9, 10, 14, 17, 20, 24, 25 he uses the
  emphatic pronoun egw
• but he does not in the most personal verses
  (15-16) and the egw in v. 9 is probably
  hypothetical (Phil 35).
• Genre Didactic
• Purpose see question 2.
• Context Paul is talking about the relationship
  between faith and the law.
• Parallels None
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The absence of any mention of the Holy Spirit in
this passage shows that Paul is not describing
his present Christian life, but is giving a
vivid, imaginary example of a person trying to
please God by living according to the law. His
point is the same as in chapter 3, that the law
cannot justify anyone (320), as in chapter 4,
that Abraham was saved by faith, not by works of
the law (413), as in chapter 5, that the law
only magnifies sin (520), and as in 6, that when
people are under the law, sin is their
master. Pauls argument in chapter 7 culminates
in chapter 8 where he says, For what the law was
powerless to do in that it was weakened by the
sinful nature, God did by sending his own Son in
the likeness of sinful man to be a sin offering.
And so he condemned sin in sinful man, in order
that the righteous requirements of the law might
be fully met in us, who do not live according to
the sinful nature but according to the Spirit.
(83-4)