For when we were in the flesh, the passions of sins, which were by the law, did work in our members to bring forth fruit unto death.
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George Leo Haydock
AD 1849
For when we were in the flesh; i.e. lived according to the flesh, the passions of sins, which were by the law: he does not say, as St. Chrysostom observes, that they were caused by the law, but only were by it, meaning that they were occasioned by the knowledge of the law, but properly caused by ourselves, and our corrupt inclinations, that were wrought in our members, rather than did work. (Witham)
