...23. See in the Bible. n Rom. vii. 7. What shall we say then ? Is the law sin > God forbid. Nay, I hid not known sin but by the law : for I had not known lust, extept the law had said, Thou shah not •covet. Rom. iii. 20. Therefore by the deeds of the law there...

...you ? Come they not hence, even of your lusts ? [selfish covetings, according to that explanation, " I had not known lust except the law had said, Thou shalt not cotie*."] — Ye lust and have not; ye kill, you. And unto him that smiteth thee on the cheek, offer...

...occasions to arise. " What shall " we say then ? Is the law sin ? God forbid, * Matthew, xxi. 43. N " Nay, I had not known sin but by the law : for " I had not...lust, except the law had said, " Thou shalt not covet. But sin, taking occasion " by the commandment, wrought in me all man" ner of concupiscence. For without...

...sin ; that is, I had not so fully understood the abominable nature thereof as I do, but by the lanv: for I had not known lust, except the law had said, thou shalt not covet; and hereupon he concludes, that the law is holy, and the commandment holy, and just, and good. (2.)...

...eompelled to plead guilty. He will now thoroughly eomprehend the meaning of St. Paul's eonfession : I had not known sin, but by the Law : for I had not known lust, exeept the Law had said, Thou shalt not eavet. But sin, taking oeeasion by the eommandment, wrought...

...and not in the olcinrss of the letter. 7 What shall we say then ? Is the law sin ? God forbid. Nay, I had not known sin but by the law; for I had not known lust, exeept the law had said, Thou shalt not eovet. 8 But sin, taking oeeasion by the eommandment, wrought...

...This was the experience of Paul, under the convictions of conscience, according to his own account. "I had not known sin but by the law; for I had not...lust, except the law had said, Thou shalt not covet. But sin taking occasion by the commandment, wrought in me all manner of concupiscence. For without...

...are many crimes which men would not have known to be sins, " I " had not known sin," says St. Paul, " but by the " law : for I had not known lust, except the law " had said, Thou shalt not covet." It is the law, then which by awakening and enlightening our conscience, teaches us that sin deserves...

...recesses, as easily to elude the view of man. And it is not without cause that the Apostle says, " I had not known lust, except the law had said, Thou shalt not covet:" (£• ) because unless it be stripped of its disguises and brought to light by the law, it destroys...

...illustrates this sentiment, as well as establishes its truth, by reference to his own experience : " I had not known sin, but by the law ; for I had not...lust, except the law had said, Thou shalt not covet." Contrasting the purity and spirituality of the Divine law, with the corruptions which he found in himself,...