Matthew Poole and continuators on Romans 7:17

17. Now then, it is no more I that do it , but sin that dwelleth in me .

i. e. It is not I as Spiritual or Renewed, 'tis not my whole self, but 'tis Sin that dwelleth in me.

That inhabits in me as a troublesome Inmate, that I can't get rid of; that will not out, so long as the House stands; as the fretting Leprosy in the Walls of a House, would not out, till the House it self were Demolished. It is such an Inhabitant, as is never from Home; it is not in us as a Stranger for a Season, but it makes its constant Abode with us.

Marginal references: Or, no longer I.