Matthew Poole and continuators on Romans 7:6

6. But now we are delivered from the law , that being dead, wherein we were held ; that we should serve in * newness of spirit , and not in the oldness of the letter .

i. e. Being brought out of our Fleshly State.

See the Notes on ver. 4.

The Relative is not in the Greek Text, but it is well supplyed to fill up the Sence. The Antecedent must be either Sin or the Law; by both of these we were held or detained whilst Unregenerate: But now neither of these have any Power to hold us with. Some read it, He being dead, the Old Man of which he spake in the foregoing Chapter.

i. e. That we should serve God or Jesus Christ our New Husband in true Holiness, which is wrought in us by the renewing of the Spirit; or serve him in a new Spiritual manner.

i. e. Not in an outward and ceremonial manner, according to the Letter of the Law; which Service or way of Worship, is now Antiquated, and grown out of date. The word Oldness insinuates the abolishing thereof, because of insufficiency, Heb. 8.13.

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