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No Condemnation
There is a variant in this text that adds “who walk according to the flesh and not according to the Spirit.”
Only the KJV contains this variant.
The link of the “therefore” here is back to 7:25a and the new life we celebrate in Christ in 7:6.
The Law is not Sufficient
The atonement provided temporary release from guilt.
It had to be repeated every year.
No one could keep the law perfectly.
Two things are involved in the work of redemption:
Forgiveness of sin - the removal of guilt.
Imputation of righteousness - the restoration of favor.
The death of Christ accomplishes these by taking the guilt upon himself and receiving God’s punishment and by carrying away our sins from us.
The life of Christ then is counted as our life.
It is as if we walked in the shoes of Jesus and obeyed the law perfectly.
The Law of the Spirit of Life
ἐλευθερόω: to cause someone to be freed from domination, free, set free, lit
to cause someone to be freed from domination, free, set free, lit
William Arndt et al., A Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2000), 317.
The basis of our no longer being under condemnation is not because we are free from sin.
The basis is Christ’s condemnation of sin in the flesh.
Hence, the word νόμος here means “principle” or “rule.”
It is the Spirit who sets believers free, and the “Spirit of life” refers to “the life-giving Spirit” (A.
Hultgren 2011 297).
Those who are set free from the principle of sin and the principle of death are not those who are in Adam but those who are united with Christ.
What the law could NOT do, God did.
The requirement of the law is fulfilled in us through the life and death of God’s own Son.
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