Matthew Poole and continuators on Romans 7:15

15. For that which I do , I allow not : for what I would, that do I not; but what I hate, that do I .

i. e. What I do contrary to the Command of God.

In the Greek 'tis, I know not. q. d. Many times I am surpriz'd and overtaken, not knowing or considering what I do: Or when he sayes I know not, his meaning is (as our Translation renders it) I allow or approve not. So the word is used, Mat. 7.23. & alibi. q. d. Even now in my Converted and Regenerate State, I am many times greatly Divided, and feel a Strife or Combate in my self; so that the good I would do upon the Motions of God's Spirit in me, I do not; and the Evil that I hate, and am utterly averse to; so far as I am Regenerated, that I do. See a parallel Place, Gal. 5.17.

He doth not speak here so much of outward Actions, as of inward Motions and Affections: He doth not speak of gross Sins, as Drunkenness, Vncleanness, &c. but of such Infirmities, as flow from the polluted Nature; and from which we can never be throughly Cleansed in this Life.

Marginal references: Gr. knew not