“But I see another law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of sin which is in my members.”
What a wretched man I am! Who will rescue me from this body that is subject to death? — The cry τάλας ἐγώ (talas egō, "wretched I") is the climax of despair: the self seeks ῥύομαι (rhyomai, "rescue/deliverance") from τὸ σῶμα τοῦ θανάτου (to soma tou thanatou, "body of death")—the enslavementsoma, filled with mortality and sin's domination. This verse poses the unanswerable question within the law's economy: the law cannot deliver; only something external can.
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