For what the law could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, and for sin, condemned sin in the flesh:
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Gill's Exposition
For what the law could not do,.... This is not to be understood of "the law of the mind", in opposition to "the law of sin", which indeed is very feeble and impotent; man had a power originally of…
Barnes' Notes
For what the law could not do - The Law of God, the moral law. It could not free from sin and condemnation. This the apostle had fully shown in Rom. 7. In that - Because. It was weak - It was feeble…
Adam Clarke
For what the law could not do - The law could not pardon; the law could not sanctify; the law could not dispense with its own requisitions; it is the rule of righteousness, and therefore must condemn…
I. The apostle here beings with one signal privilege of true Christians, and describes the character of those to whom it belongs: There is therefore now no condemnation to those that are in Christ…
Cambridge Bible
what the law could not do Lit. the Impossible of the Law. What was this? The answer lies in Rom 8:4. The Law could not procure the "fulfilment" of its own "legal claim;" could not make its subjects…
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