Matthew Poole and continuators on Romans 7:4

4 Wherefore my brethren, ye also are become dead to the law by the body of Christ ; that ye should be married to another, even to him that is raised from the dead, that we should bring forth fruit unto God .

i. e. Ye are taken off from all hopes of Justification by it, and from your confidence in obedience to it. Gal. 2.19. The Opposition seems to require that he should have said The Law is dead to us. But these two Phrases are much the same. Q. What Law doth he mean? A. Not only the Ceremonial, but the Moral Law, for in that he instanceth, v. 7. the moral Law is in force still, Christ came to confirm, and not to destroy it: But Believers are freed from the malediction, from the rigid exaction, and from the irritation thereof. Of this last he speaks, v. 8, 9. and from it we are freed but in part.

i. e. By the Sacrifice of Christs Body upon the Cross; thereby he delivered us from the Law, in the sence before mentioned.

i. e. Fruits of Holiness and good Works to the Glory and Praise of God.

Marginal references: Chap. 8. [illegible: 1 letter] Gal. 5.18.; Or, th[illegible: 2 letters] y[illegible: 1 letter] may be to [illegible: 3 letters] ther.; Gal. 5.2[illegible: 1 letter]