Romans 7:6

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But now we are delivered from the law, being dead to that in which we were held; that we should serve in newness of spirit, and not in the oldness of the letter.

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Ambrosiaster

AD 400

The law is called the “law of death” because it punishes the guilty and puts sinners to death. It is therefore not evil but righteous. For although evil is inflicted on its victims by the law, the law itself is not evil, because it executes wrath justly. Therefore it is not evil to sinners but just. But to good people it is spiritual. For who would doubt that it is spiritual to forbid sin? But because the law could not save men by forgiving sin the law of faith was given, in order to deliver believers from the power of sin and bring those whom the law had held in death back to life. For to them it is a law of death and it works wrath in them because of sin. Although Paul regards the law as inferior to the law of faith, he does not condemn it…. The law of Moses is not called old because it is evil but because it is out of date and has ceased to function…. The old law was written on tablets of stone, but the law of the Spirit is written spiritually on the tables of the heart that it migh... Read More

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Augustine of Hippo

AD 430

The law is only a written code to those who do not fulfill it in the spirit of charity to which the New Testament belongs.

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Clement Of Alexandria

AD 215

Yet "without the law sin was dead"

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Gennadius of Constantinople

AD 471

Paul sets “Spirit” against “letter,” “newness” against “oldness,” and by these names shows us how different the two things are. .

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George Leo Haydock

AD 1849

But now are loosed from the law of death, by which many understand from the law of Moses; so called, because it could not of itself give the life of grace, and occasioned death. Others expound these words, free from the law of death, that is, from sins, which before they had been guilty of, and which made them deserve eternal death. (Witham)

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John Chrysostom

AD 407

Once again Paul spares the flesh and the law. He does not say that the law was discharged or that sin was discharged but that we were discharged. How did this happen? It happened because the old man, who had been held down by sin, died and was buried.

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Tertullian of Carthage

AD 220

For when we were in the flesh, the passions of sin, which (passions) used to be efficiently caused through the law, (wrought) in our members unto the bearing of fruit to death; but now we have been emancipated from the law, being dead (to that) in which we used to be held.

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