Romanos 7
Diodorus of Tarsus · Comentário Patrístico (catena)
Romanos 7:7
It is clear from Romans [2:14] that even without the law the Gentiles knew what was required of them. It must therefore be accepted that they knew, though they did not know everything. For there are things which some Gentiles regard as good and proper while others reject them as bad and unlawful. Therefore the giving of the law was necessary to define for us what should and should not be done, outlining for us and showing us what the behavior of a righteous person is. — PAULINE COMMENTARY FROM THE GREEK CHURCH
Romanos 7:8
By "sin," Paul presumably means the devil. For just as Scripture sometimes calls the Savior "life" and "righteousness" because he is the source of life and righteousness, so it calls the opposing power by what it causes—sometimes "sin," sometimes "lie," sometimes "death." — PAULINE COMMENTARY FROM THE GREEK CHURCH
Romanos 7:9
If sin "revived" it is clear that it must have been alive at some earlier point and then died. When was that? It was when the devil deceived and defeated Adam, who had received the commandment and knew what transgression meant. Cain too knew that he was sinning, having been commanded not to murder his brother. It was after that that there was no commandment and no law, and so sin was knocked out by the ignorance of those who committed it. — PAULINE COMMENTARY FROM THE GREEK CHURCH
Romanos 7:14
The law is spiritual and makes the person who keeps it spiritual as well. It was given by the Holy Spirit so that those who obeyed it might receive the Spirit and be cleansed by the law's teaching. Paul was not sold under sin by anyone else but by his own breaking of the law. — PAULINE COMMENTARY FROM THE GREEK CHURCH
Romanos 7:15
Paul is not condemning himself here but describing the common lot of mankind, which he sees in himself. — PAULINE COMMENTARY FROM THE GREEK CHURCH
Romanos 7:22
Here Paul is describing the common lot of man. For the ordinary person can see in his mind what ought to be done but cannot achieve it. But the man who has believed in Christ with his mind can achieve it with the help of the Holy Spirit. Such a person is therefore called "spiritual." — PAULINE COMMENTARY FROM THE GREEK CHURCH