Matthew Poole and continuators on Romans 7:13

13. Was then that which is good, made death unto me? God forbid . But sin that it might appear sin, working death in me, by that which is good ; that sin by the commandment might become exceeding sinful .

Another Anticipation. The Apostle denyes, that the Holy Law was in its own nature deadly, or the cause of Death to him; the Fault was not in the Law, but in his own depraved Nature: But the plain Case is this that follows.

That Sin, that so it might appear every way like it self, wrought Death in him▪ by occasion of that Law, which, yet its self is Holy, Iust, and Good.

So as hereupon Sin, which in the time of his Ignorance an Unregeneracy, seem'd not worthy of any Notice, appear'd to be exceeding Foul and Sinful. Sin is so Evil, that he can't call it by a worse Name than its own. Hierome thinketh, That the Apostle here commits a Solecisme, by joyning an Adjective of the Masculine Gender, with a Substantive of the Feminine: But Beza and Erasmus have observed, That this is usual in the Attick Dialect. See the like, chap. 1.20. Some read Sinner for Sinful, and make the Apostle to speak of Sin, as of a certain Person; & therefore all along, the Context, Sin, is said to Work, to be Dead, to Revive, to Deceive, to Kill, &c. which is properly attributed to Persons, and not to things.