“O wretched man that I am! who shall deliver me from the body of this death?”
Thanks be to God—through Jesus Christ our Lord! So then, I myself in my mind am a slave to God's law, but in my sinful nature a slave to the law of sin. — The answer erupts: Χάρις τῷ θεῷ (Charis tō theō, "Thanks to God!") through Ἰησοῦν Χριστόν (Iēsoun Christon, "Jesus Christ")—deliverance is eschatological and christological, not legal. Yet Paul restates the divided condition: νοῦς (nous, "mind") enslaved to God's law, σάρξ (sarx, "flesh") enslaved to sin's law. The question is answered, but the divided self remains—until chapter 8.
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Yuki TanakaNote1mo agoThe Flesh Wrestles
Paul breaks into almost desperate honesty: 'What a wretched man I am! Who will rescue me from this body of death?' This isn't preamble to a solution. This is anguish. He's describing the experience of...
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Aisha MbekiNote1mo agoWretched Man That I Am
Paul cries out: 'What a wretched man I am! Who will rescue me from this body that is subject to death?' This is despair. Real, honest despair. And it's in the middle of Scripture.
I spent five years ...
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