“For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the law of sin and death.”
For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus has set you free from the law of sin and death. — The νόμος (nomos, "law") shifts registers: no longer external commandment but internal principle of the Spirit. This πνευματικός (pneumatikos, "spiritual") law liberates from the dual servitude to sin and death (7:24-25). The genitive τοῦ πνεύματος (tou pneumatos, "of the Spirit") is specifying: the Spirit is the agent and source of freedom. Life (ζωή, zōē) is the outcome.
Church Fathers on Romans 8:2
“For the law of the Spirit of life has made me free.” It is the Spirit he is here calling the law of the Spirit. For as he calls sin the law of sin, so he here calls the Spirit the law of the Spirit. And yet he named that of Moses as such, where he says, “For we know that the Law is spiritual.” What then is the difference? A great and unbounded one. For that was spiritual, but this is a law of the Spirit. Now what is the distinction between this and that? The other was…
Nicene & Post-Nicene / Ante-Nicene Fathers translations · public domain
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