Romans · Patriarchal Text (Antoniades 1904/1912)
Romans 7 Patriarchal Text (Antoniades 1904/1912)
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Notes on this text (3)
- The digital source has no accents or capitals (as Robinson distributes it); 1912 base text, movable nu regularised.
- Double square brackets [[ ]] are marks in the digital source; at 1 John 5:7–8 they enclose the words the 1904 edition prints in smaller type.
- Credit: Maurice A. Robinson & Jussi Ala-Konni (byztxt).
1 η αγνοειτε, αδελφοι· γινωσκουσιν γαρ νομον λαλω· οτι ο νομος κυριευει του ανθρωπου εφ οσον χρονον ζη;
1 Or don’t you know, brothers (for I speak to men who know the law), that the law has dominion over a man for as long as he lives?
2 η γαρ υπανδρος γυνη τω ζωντι ανδρι δεδεται νομω· εαν δε αποθανη ο ανηρ, κατηργηται απο του νομου του ανδρος.
2 For the woman that has a husband is bound by law to the husband while he lives, but if the husband dies, she is discharged from the law of the husband.
3 αρα ουν ζωντος του ανδρος μοιχαλις χρηματισει εαν γενηται ανδρι ετερω· εαν δε αποθανη ο ανηρ, ελευθερα εστιν απο του νομου, του μη ειναι αυτην μοιχαλιδα γενομενην ανδρι ετερω.
3 So then if, while the husband lives, she is joined to another man, she would be called an adulteress. But if the husband dies, she is free from the law, so that she is no adulteress, though she is joined to another man.
4 ωστε, αδελφοι μου, και υμεις εθανατωθητε τω νομω δια του σωματος του χριστου εις το γενεσθαι υμας ετερω, τω εκ νεκρων εγερθεντι, ινα καρποφορησωμεν τω θεω.
4 Therefore, my brothers, you also were made dead to the law through the body of Christ, that you would be joined to another, to him who was raised from the dead, that we might produce fruit to God.
5 οτε γαρ ημεν εν τη σαρκι, τα παθηματα των αμαρτιων τα δια του νομου ενηργειτο εν τοις μελεσιν ημων εις το καρποφορησαι τω θανατω·
5 For when we were in the flesh, the sinful passions which were through the law worked in our members to bring out fruit to death.
6 νυνι δε κατηργηθημεν απο του νομου, αποθανοντες εν ω κατειχομεθα, ωστε δουλευειν ημας εν καινοτητι πνευματος και ου παλαιοτητι γραμματος.
6 But now we have been discharged from the law, having died to that in which we were held; so that we serve in newness of the spirit, and not in oldness of the letter.
7 τι ουν ερουμεν; ο νομος αμαρτια; μη γενοιτο· αλλα την αμαρτιαν ουκ εγνων ει μη δια νομου· την τε γαρ επιθυμιαν ουκ ηδειν ει μη ο νομος ελεγεν, ουκ επιθυμησεις·
7 What shall we say then? Is the law sin? May it never be! However, I wouldn’t have known sin except through the law. For I wouldn’t have known coveting unless the law had said, “You shall not covet.”
8 αφορμην δε λαβουσα η αμαρτια δια της εντολης κατειργασατο εν εμοι πασαν επιθυμιαν· χωρις γαρ νομου αμαρτια νεκρα.
8 But sin, finding occasion through the commandment, produced in me all kinds of coveting. For apart from the law, sin is dead.
9 εγω δε εζων χωρις νομου ποτε· ελθουσης δε της εντολης η αμαρτια ανεζησεν, εγω δε απεθανον,
9 I was alive apart from the law once, but when the commandment came, sin revived and I died.
10 και ευρεθη μοι η εντολη η εις ζωην, αυτη εις θανατον·
10 The commandment which was for life, this I found to be for death;
11 η γαρ αμαρτια αφορμην λαβουσα δια της εντολης εξηπατησεν με και δια αυτης απεκτεινεν.
11 for sin, finding occasion through the commandment, deceived me, and through it killed me.
12 ωστε ο μεν νομος αγιος, και η εντολη αγια και δικαια και αγαθη.
12 Therefore the law indeed is holy, and the commandment holy, righteous, and good.
13 το ουν αγαθον εμοι γεγονεν θανατος; μη γενοιτο· αλλα η αμαρτια, ινα φανη αμαρτια, δια του αγαθου μοι κατεργαζομενη θανατον, ινα γενηται καθ υπερβολην αμαρτωλος η αμαρτια δια της εντολης.
13 Did then that which is good become death to me? May it never be! But sin, that it might be shown to be sin, was producing death in me through that which is good; that through the commandment sin might become exceedingly sinful.
14 οιδαμεν γαρ οτι ο νομος πνευματικος εστιν· εγω δε σαρκικος ειμι, πεπραμενος υπο την αμαρτιαν.
14 For we know that the law is spiritual, but I am fleshly, sold under sin.
15 ο γαρ κατεργαζομαι ου γινωσκω· ου γαρ ο θελω τουτο πρασσω, αλλ ο μισω τουτο ποιω.
15 For I don’t understand what I am doing. For I don’t practice what I desire to do; but what I hate, that I do.
16 ει δε ο ου θελω τουτο ποιω, συμφημι τω νομω οτι καλος.
16 But if what I don’t desire, that I do, I consent to the law that it is good.
17 νυνι δε ουκετι εγω κατεργαζομαι αυτο, αλλ η οικουσα εν εμοι αμαρτια.
17 So now it is no more I that do it, but sin which dwells in me.
18 οιδα γαρ οτι ουκ οικει εν εμοι, τουτ εστιν εν τη σαρκι μου, αγαθον· το γαρ θελειν παρακειται μοι, το δε κατεργαζεσθαι το καλον ουχ ευρισκω·
18 For I know that in me, that is, in my flesh, dwells no good thing. For desire is present with me, but I don’t find it doing that which is good.
19 ου γαρ ο θελω ποιω αγαθον, αλλ ο ου θελω κακον τουτο πρασσω.
19 For the good which I desire, I don’t do; but the evil which I don’t desire, that I practice.
20 ει δε ο ου θελω εγω τουτο ποιω, ουκετι εγω κατεργαζομαι αυτο, αλλ η οικουσα εν εμοι αμαρτια.
20 But if what I don’t desire, that I do, it is no more I that do it, but sin which dwells in me.
21 ευρισκω αρα τον νομον τω θελοντι εμοι ποιειν το καλον, οτι εμοι το κακον παρακειται·
21 I find then the law that, while I desire to do good, evil is present.
22 συνηδομαι γαρ τω νομω του θεου κατα τον εσω ανθρωπον,
22 For I delight in God’s law after the inward person,
23 βλεπω δε ετερον νομον εν τοις μελεσιν μου αντιστρατευομενον τω νομω του νοος μου και αιχμαλωτιζοντα με [εν] τω νομω της αμαρτιας τω οντι εν τοις μελεσιν μου.
23 but I see a different law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity under the law of sin which is in my members.
24 ταλαιπωρος εγω ανθρωπος! τις με ρυσεται εκ του σωματος του θανατου τουτου;
24 What a wretched man I am! Who will deliver me out of the body of this death?
25 ευχαριστω τω θεω δια ιησου χριστου του κυριου ημων. αρα ουν αυτος εγω τω μεν νοι δουλευω νομω θεου, τη δε σαρκι νομω αμαρτιας.
25 I thank God through Jesus Christ, our Lord! So then with the mind, I myself serve God’s law, but with the flesh, sin’s law.
Cross references (25)
Related passages for each verse, from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge as collected and ranked by readers at OpenBible.info.
- 1 Romans 6:14; Romans 7:6; Romans 6:3; Proverbs 6:23; Romans 10:1
- 2 Genesis 2:23–24; 1 Corinthians 7:4; 1 Corinthians 7:39; Numbers 30:7–8
- 3 Exodus 20:14; Matthew 5:32; Mark 10:6–12; 1 Timothy 5:11–14; John 8:3–5
- 4 1 Peter 2:24; Galatians 5:22–23; Isaiah 54:5; Ephesians 5:23–27; Romans 8:2
- 5 Ephesians 2:3; Galatians 5:16–17; Galatians 5:24; Galatians 3:10; Romans 6:13
- 6 Galatians 3:23–25; 2 Corinthians 3:6; Romans 7:4; Romans 6:4; Galatians 2:19–20
- 7 Romans 3:20; Romans 4:15; Exodus 20:17; 1 Corinthians 15:56; Deuteronomy 5:21
- 8 Romans 7:11; 1 Corinthians 15:56; Romans 4:15; James 1:14–15; Romans 7:13
- 9 Galatians 3:10; Romans 8:7; Romans 7:4; James 2:10–11; Galatians 2:19
- 10 Leviticus 18:5; 2 Corinthians 3:7; Galatians 3:12; Romans 10:5; Ezekiel 20:21
- 11 Genesis 3:13; Romans 7:8; Jeremiah 17:9; Hebrews 3:13; James 1:26
- 12 1 Timothy 1:8; Psalm 119:137; Psalm 19:7–12; Romans 7:14; Psalm 119:172
- 13 James 1:13–15; Galatians 3:21; Romans 8:3; Romans 7:8–11; Romans 5:20
- 14 1 Kings 21:25; 2 Kings 17:17; Isaiah 52:3; 1 Kings 21:20; Romans 7:18
- 15 Galatians 5:17; Romans 7:19–20; Ecclesiastes 7:20; James 3:2; Nahum 1:7
- 16 Romans 7:12; 1 Timothy 1:8; Romans 7:14; Romans 7:22; Psalm 119:127–128
- 17 Romans 7:20; Romans 7:18; Philippians 3:8–9; James 4:5–6; Romans 4:7–8
- 18 John 3:6; Psalm 51:5; Galatians 5:17; Psalm 119:115–117; Romans 7:25
- 19 Romans 7:15
- 20 Romans 7:17
- 21 Ephesians 6:11–13; Romans 8:2; Romans 6:14; Romans 7:23; Romans 6:12
- 22 Psalm 1:2; Psalm 40:8; Psalm 119:35; Psalm 119:47–48; Hebrews 8:10
- 23 Galatians 5:17; James 4:1; Romans 8:2; Romans 6:19; Romans 7:25
- 24 Romans 6:6; 2 Timothy 4:18; Titus 2:14; Romans 8:2; 2 Corinthians 12:7–9
- 25 Galatians 5:17–24; Colossians 3:17; 2 Corinthians 12:9–10; 1 Peter 2:5; Romans 6:17
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What the Fathers said
Passages from the Church Fathers that expound or quote this chapter, verbatim from the public-domain Schaff edition (19th-century English translations).
How these were chosen
“Commentary” is the opening of a homily or exposition on this chapter (John Chrysostom’s homilies, Augustine’s tractates, sermons and expositions of the Psalms). “Quotes” are sentences where the edition’s own footnotes identify a quotation of a verse here, kept only when the wording matches the verse. Only works whose authorship is not in doubt are used. Psalms follow the Hebrew/English numbering (Augustine numbers them as the Septuagint does: his Psalm 50 is Psalm 51 here).
After having said that great evils had taken place, and that sin, taking occasion by the commandment, had grown stronger, and the opposite of what the Law mainly aimed at had been the result, and after having thrown the hearer into a great deal of perplexity, he goes on next to give the rationale of these events, after first clearing …
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 11 (1889)
… sign of our salvation, since it was the Lord Himself who saved them, because they could not be saved by their own instrumentality; and, therefore, when Paul sets forth human infirmity, he says: "For I know that there dwelleth in my flesh no good thing," showing that the "good thing" of our salvation is not from us, but from God.
For though a man "delight in the law of God after the inward man," what shall he do with that other law in his members which warreth against the law of his mind, and bringeth him into captivity to the law of sin, which is in his members?
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 1 (1886)
The Devil had used the flesh as an instrument against us; and Paul knowing this, saith, But I see another law in my members warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity, and the rest.
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 2, vol. 7 (1894)
And again: "Wretched man that I am, who shall deliver me from the body of this death?" Then he introduces the Deliverer, [saying,] "The grace of Jesus Christ our Lord." And Isaiah declares this also, [when he says:] "Be ye strengthened, ye hands that hang down, and ye feeble knees; be ye encouraged, ye feeble-minded; be comforted, fear not: behold, …