Matthew Poole and continuators on Romans 8:2

2 For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus , hath made me free from the law of sin and death .

Some understand hereby the Doctrine of the Gospel, which is called the Law of the Spirit of Life, because it is the Ministry of the Spirit and of Life. Others understand the Efficacy and Power of that Grace and Holiness, wherewith the living and quickning Spirit of God hath filled the Humane Nature of Christ. Others rather understand as regenerating and working the New and Heavenly Life in the Soul, with great Power and Efficacy.

i. e. Which was poured out upon him, and doth still reside in him after a very eminent manner, vid. Isa. 11.2. Luke 4.1. or in Christ Iesus, is as much as by Christ Iesus; 'tis he that gives and conveyes this Spirit, how, when and to whom he pleaseth.

By sin here he aimes chiefly at Original Sin; he doth not say, that those who are in Christ are simply and absolutely delivered from Sin, but from the Law of Sin. i. e. the Power, Dominion and Tyranny thereof.

i. e. From Sin that is deadly or of a deadly Nature, as the Spirit of Life is the living Spirit; so Sin and Death is no more, say some, than deadly Sin. Others take death to be distinct from Sin, and think he speaks of a double deliverance: And then by Death, they understand eternal or the second death. vid. Revel. 20.6. The sence of the whole is this. That the mighty power of the renewing and quickening spirit, did free the Apostle, and doth free all Believers from the command and rule of Sin, so that it doth not reign over them, as formerly it did; and being thus freed from the power of Sin, they are also freed from the power of Death and eternal Condemnation. So it seems as a proof of the foregoing proposition, That there is no Condemnation to them, &c.

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