Matthew Poole and continuators on Romans 7:24

24. O wretched man that I am who shall deliver me from the body of this death !

The word signifies one wearied out with continual combates.

It is not the voice of one desponding or doubting, but of one breathing and panting after deliverance; the like pathetical exclamations are frequent. vid. Psal. 55.6. One calls this verse, Gemi[illegible: 1 letter]us Sanctorum, the Groan of the Godly.

Or from this Body of Death, or by an Hebraisme from this dead Body. This carcass of Sin to which I am inseparably fastned, as noysom every whit to my Soul, as a dead carcass to my Senses. This is another circumlocution, or denomination of Original Sin. chap. 6▪6. 'tis called the Body of Sin, and here the Body of death: It tends and binds over to death.

Marginal references: Or, this bo[illegible: 2 letters] of death.