| Menzies Rayner - 1833 - 202 pages
...Now, (continues the apostle) we are delivered from the law, that being dead, wherein we were held, that we should serve in newness of spirit, and not in the oldness of the letter." Thus, my hearers, as you must have observed, beginning as far back as appeared... | |
| 1833 - 548 pages
...fruit unto death 1 but now we are delivered from the law, being dead to that wherein we were held, that we should serve in newness of spirit, and not in the oldness of the letter (vii. 1 — 6). XII. And the conclusion of this argument respecting the law,... | |
| 1834 - 406 pages
...forth fruit unto death: 6 But now we are delivered from the law, that being dead wherein we were held ; that we should serve in newness of spirit, and not in the oldness of the letter. 7 What shall we say then 1 Is the law sin1? God forbid. Nay, [ had not known... | |
| 1834 - 452 pages
...says, ' we are delivered from the law, that being dead, [or, being dead to that] wherein we were held ; that we should serve in newness of spirit, and not in the oldness of the letter.'1 This distinction, which may at first seem a little too refined, will appear... | |
| Jean Calvin - 1834 - 674 pages
...forth fruit Mnto death. 6 But now we ar delivered from the law, that being dead wherein w were held ; that we should serve in newness of spirit and not in the oldness of the letter. For when we were in the flesh— Paul points out, in ; still more clear manner... | |
| Thomas Griffith - 1834 - 348 pages
...service of a freely acting man. " We are delivered from the law, being dead to that wherein we were held, that we should serve in newness of spirit and not in the oldness of the letter." It is the law of Spiritual wisdom, no longer pealing trumpet-tongued amidst... | |
| William Howels - 1836 - 556 pages
...forth fruit unto death. But now we are delivered from the law, that being dead wherein we were held ; that we should serve in newness of spirit, and not in the oldness of the letter." ' The church is married to Christ, and he, the husband, has paid and will pay... | |
| Thomas Chalmers - 1836 - 414 pages
...forth fruit unto death . But now we are delivered from the law, that being dead wherein we were held ; that we should serve in newness of spirit, and not in the oldness of the letter." THERE is a twofold change which takes place, at the moment of a believer's... | |
| Robert Haldane - 1837 - 616 pages
...this most erroneously confines the declaration of the Apostle to the Jews and the legal dispensation. That we should serve in newness of spirit, and not in the oMness of the letter.— This is the effect of being delivered from the law. The Apostle here refers... | |
| Thomas Chalmers - 1836 - 406 pages
...law. We are delivered from the law, not that we should be delivered from the service of obedience, but that we should serve in newness of spirit, and not in the oldness of the letter. The first remark that we offer, in the way of illustrating this distinction... | |
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