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xi.vi.viii-p55.5

xi.vi.viii-p55.565 words

14. For we know that the law is spiritual—in its demands.

but I am carnal—fleshly (see on Ro 7:5), and as such, incapable of yielding spiritual obedience.

sold under sin—enslaved to it. The "I" here, though of course not the regenerate, is neither the unregenerate, but the sinful principle of the renewed man, as is expressly stated in Ro 7:18.