What shall we say then? Is the law sin ? God forbid. Nay, I had not known sin, but by the law: for I had not known lust, except the law had said, Thou shalt not covet. Practical Sermons - الصفحة 28بواسطة George Moberly - 1838 - عدد الصفحات: 399عرض كامل - لمحة عن هذا الكتاب
| New Church gen. confer - عدد الصفحات: 640
...without the law once : but when the commandment came, sin revived, and I died." And then he demands, " Is the law sin ? God forbid. Nay, I had not known sin, but by the law. . . . Wherefore the law is holy, and the commandment holy, and just, and good. Was then that which... | |
| Thomas Ridgley - 1814 - عدد الصفحات: 558
...sin ; that is, I had not so fully understood the abominable nature thereof as I do, but by the lanv: for I had not known lust, except the law had said, thou shalt not covet; and hereupon he concludes, that the law is holy, and the commandment holy, and just, and good. (2.)... | |
| George Stanley Faber - 1814 - عدد الصفحات: 282
...eompelled to plead guilty. He will now thoroughly eomprehend the meaning of St. Paul's eonfession : I had not known sin, but by the Law : for I had not known lust, exeept the Law had said, Thou shalt not eavet. But sin, taking oeeasion by the eommandment, wrought... | |
| Thomas Ridgley - 1814 - عدد الصفحات: 554
...to discover itself in the blackest colours ; the apostle plainly evinces this truth, when he says, Sin taking occasion by the commandment, -wrought in me all manner of concupiscence, Rom. vii. 8. and, indeed, there is nothing in the whole compass of providence, or in the methods of... | |
| Daniel de Superville - 1816 - عدد الصفحات: 436
...are many crimes which men would not have known to be sins, " I " had not known sin," says St. Paul, " but by the " law : for I had not known lust, except the law " had said, Thou shalt not covet." It is the law, then which by awakening and enlightening our conscience, teaches us that sin deserves... | |
| Jean Calvin - 1816 - عدد الصفحات: 606
...recesses, as easily to elude the view of man. And it is not without cause that the Apostle says, " I had not known lust, except the law had said, Thou shalt not covet:" (£• ) because unless it be stripped of its disguises and brought to light by the law, it destroys... | |
| William Hammond - 1816 - عدد الصفحات: 320
...are infected, and from which none are free. The seventh chapter is full of this doctrine ; sw vcr. 8. Sin taking occasion by the commandment, wrought in me all manner of concupiscence. If man was in Ids primitive state of purity and holiness, he would take occasion by the divine commandment... | |
| Thornhill Kidd - 1817 - عدد الصفحات: 804
...illustrates this sentiment, as well as establishes its truth, by reference to his own experience : " I had not known sin, but by the law ; for I had not...lust, except the law had said, Thou shalt not covet." Contrasting the purity and spirituality of the Divine law, with the corruptions which he found in himself,... | |
| Thomas Scott - 1817 - عدد الصفحات: 530
...what law is " the knowledge of sin?" By the moral, or by the ritual law? — " I had not known sjn, but by the " law; for I had not known lust, except the law had • " said, Thou shalt not covet."f Indeed all the apostle's preceding discourse had been concerning the violations of the moral... | |
| Jonathan Edwards - 1817 - عدد الصفحات: 568
...by the law we have the knowledge of sin, and tbat it is by Hie 1aw's forbidding sin, chap. vii. 7. " I had not known sin, but by the law; for I had not known lust, except the law hail said, thou shalt not covet." There the apostle determines two things ; first, That the way in... | |
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