“For I delight in the law of God after the inward man:”
For in my inner being I delight in God's law; but I see another law at work in me, waging war against the law of my mind and making me a prisoner of the law of sin at work in my members. — The ἔσω ἄνθρωπος (esō anthropos, "inner person/mind") delights (συνήδομαι, synēdomai, "rejoice with") in God's νόμος (nomos, "law"); but another law (ἕτερος νόμος, heteros nomos) wages war (ἀντιστρατεύομαι, antistrateuomai, "war against") the νοῦς (nous, "mind/reason"). The self is a battlefield: mind versus flesh, spirit versus sin. Sin's law makes the body's members prisoners of transgression.
Church Fathers on Romans 7:22
“I find then a law, that when I would do good, evil is present with me.” What he says is not very clear. What then is it that is said? I praise the law, he says, in my conscience, and I find it pleads on my side so far as I am desirous of doing what is right, and that it invigorates this wish. For as I feel a pleasure in it, so does it yield praise to my decision. Do you see how he shows, that the knowledge of what is good and what is not such is an original and fundamental…
Nicene & Post-Nicene / Ante-Nicene Fathers translations · public domain
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