But sin, taking occasion by the commandment, worked in me all manner of covetousness. For without the law sin was dead.
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Diodorus of Tarsus
AD 390
By “sin,” Paul presumably means the devil. For just as Scripture sometimes calls the Savior “life” and “righteousness” because he is the source of life and righteousness, so it calls the opposing power by what it causes—sometimes “sin,” sometimes “lie,” sometimes “death.” .
