“Know ye not, brethren, (for I speak to them that know the law,) how that the law hath dominion over a man as long as he liveth?”
Do you not know, brothers and sisters—for I am speaking to those who know the law—that the law has authority over someone only as long as that person lives? — Paul shifts from baptismal union to the law's temporal limit; νόμος (nomos, "law") binds only the living, suggesting the believer's crucifixion with Christ (6:9) releases from the law's jurisdiction. The address "those who know the law" suggests Roman Jewish converts. The principle is juridical: death severs legal obligation.
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