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NASB | Romans 7:24 Wretched man that I am! Who will set me free from the body of this death? |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | Romans 7:24 Wretched and miserable man that I am! Who will [rescue me and] set me free from this body of death [this corrupt, mortal existence]? |
Subject: Who is the Wretched Man? |
Bible Note: Hi Tim; Though there may be some commentary from esteemed theologians that support this view. There also seems to be many more that do not. -- "Surely I was sinful at birth, sinful from the time my mother conceived me" (Psalm 51:5). In addition, we have commands that we know we never keep, much less on a daily basis. For instance, who can claim to love God with all his heart, mind and soul every moment of every day? No one. Yet, that is the greatest commandment (Matthew 22:36-38). Failing to love God completely at all times is a daily sin for all Christians. We also have a verse that warns us of the deceitfulness of our old sinful nature, which in a sense is warning us of the potential, if not the likelihood, of daily sin. "The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?" (Jeremiah 17:9). Even the apostle Paul was frustrated with his own battle against indwelling sin. "For I delight in the law of God after the inward man: But I see another law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of sin which is in my members" (Romans 7:22-23). This capacity to sin led him to cry in desperation, “What a wretched man I am! Who will rescue me from this body of death?” (Romans 7:24). Solomon knew full well that he and all men not only have the potential for sin, but that we all exercise that capacity routinely. As he stated in his prayer at the dedication of the temple, "If they sin against thee, (for there is no man that sinneth not)" (1 Kings 8:46). And Solomon spoke of it again in the book of Ecclesiastes: "For there is not a just man upon earth, that doeth good, and sinneth not" (Ecclesiastes 7:20). Again, while these verses do not unequivocally indicate daily sin, they certainly warn us against the pride of saying at any moment that we have no sin.?"--http://www.gotquestions.org/sin-daily.html ------------------------------------------------------ Romans 7:15-25 "The intensely personal character of these verses and the use of present tenses indicate that this was Paul's owen experience as a believer."-- Ryrie Study Bible Expanded Edition NASB ------------------------------------------------------ 7:24 O wretched man that I am! who shall deliver me from the body of this death? -- "It is a miserable thing to be yet in part subject to sin, which of its own nature makes us guilty of death: but we must cry to the Lord, who will by death itself at length make us conquerors, as we are already conquerors in Christ. Wearied with miserable and continual conflicts." 7:25 I thank God through Jesus Christ our Lord. So then with the mind I f myself serve the law of God; but with the flesh the law of sin. -- "He recovers himself, and shows us that he rests only in Christ. This is the true perfection of those that are born again, to confess that they are imperfect."--The Geneva Study Bible ------------------------------------------------------ Also: http://eword.gospelcom.net/comments/romans/gill/romans7.htm And: http://eword.gospelcom.net/comments/romans/mhc/romans7.htm The content of these web-sources that are held alongside of this are also in post 209566 so I wont post them again. Needless to say, they concur that the "Wretched Man" is synonymous with the Christian inner struggle with daily sin. And should give great comfort to those who are aware of this struggle. ------------------------------------------------------ 24. O wretched man that I am! who shall deliver me from the body of this death?--The apostle speaks of the "body" here with reference to "the law of sin" which he had said was "in his members," but merely as the instrument by which the sin of the heart finds vent in action, and as itself the seat of the lower appetites (see on Ro 6:6, and Ro 7:5); and he calls it "the body of this death," as feeling, at the moment when he wrote, the horrors of that death (Ro 6:21, and Ro 7:5) into which it dragged him down. But the language is not that of a sinner newly awakened to the sight of his lost state; it is the cry of a living but agonized believer, weighed down under a burden which is not himself, but which he longs to shake off from his renewed self. Nor does the question imply ignorance of the way of relief at the time referred to. It was designed only to prepare the way for that outburst of thankfulness for the divinely provided remedy which immediately follows. 25. I thank God--the Source. through Jesus Christ--the Channel of deliverance. So then--to sum up the whole matter. with the mind--the mind indeed.--Jamieson, Faussett, and Brown I guess Tim, we have come to a crossroad that we part in agreement but, share many truths that we can be glad of. And agree to disagree, agreeably. :-) God bless John |