For we know that the law is spiritual: but I am carnal, sold under sin.
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Ambrosiaster
AD 400
Paul is speaking here to those who were under the law. For they would not have submitted to it if they did not know that it was spiritual…. Paul calls man carnal, because he sins. To be sold under sin means to trace one’s origin to Adam, who was the first to sin, and to subject oneself to sin by one’s own transgression…. For Adam sold himself first, and because of this all his descendants are subjected to sin. The law is firm and just and without fault, but man is weak and bound either by his own or by his inherited fault, so that he cannot obey the law in his own strength. Commentary on Paul’s Epistles.
