“Wherefore the law is holy, and the commandment holy, and just, and good.”
So then, the law is holy, and the commandment is holy, righteous and good. — Paul's thesis: the νόμος (nomos, "law") is ἅγιος (hagios, "holy"), and the ἐντολή (entolē, "commandment") is ἡγίασμένη (hēgiasmēnē, "holy"), δικαία (dikaia, "righteous"), and καλή (kalē, "good"). The law is not the problem; sin is. The law's goodness is affirmed even while its inability to produce righteousness is established. This clears God's law of the charge of evil.
Church Fathers on Romans 7:12
“Wherefore the law is holy, and the commandment holy, and just, and good.” But, if you be so minded, we will bring before you the language of those who wrest these declarations. For this will make our own statements clearer. For there are some that say, that he is not here saying what he does of the Law of Moses, but some take it of the law of nature; some, of the commandment given in Paradise. Yet surely Paul's object everywhere is to annul this Law, but he has not any…
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