8. For without the law, etc. He expresses most clearly the meaning of his former words; for it is the same as though he had said, that the knowledge of sin without the law is buried. It is a general truth, which he presently applies to his own case. I hence wonder what could have come into the minds of interpreters to render the passage in the preterimperfect tense, as though Paul was speaking of himself; for it is easy to see that his purpose was to begin with a general proposition, and then to explain the subject by his own example. return to ' Top of Page ' <a name="verse-9" class="com-number"
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Source
source-manifest/cal— Calvin's Commentaries (PD)- evidence_grade: T_theological