Commentaries:
Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown
For I was alive without the law once--"In the days of my ignorance, when, in this sense, a stranger to the law, I deemed myself a righteous man, and, as such, entitled to life at the hand of God."
but when the commandment came--forbidding all irregular desire; for the apostle sees in this the spirit of the whole law.
sin revived--"came to life"; in its malignity and strength it unexpectedly revealed itself, as if sprung from the dead.
and I died--"saw myself, in the eye of a law never kept and not to be kept, a dead man."
Other commentary entries containing this verse:
Song of Solomon 7:9
Hosea 13:1
Romans 7:5
Romans 7:6
Romans 7:10-11
1 Corinthians 15:56
2 Corinthians 3:6
2 Corinthians 3:9
Galatians 3:19
Colossians 2:14
1 Timothy 1:8
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