Rom 7:7-8 | RWP | e4.org | Is the law sin? ( ο νομος αμαρτια? ). A pertinent query in view of what he had said. Some people today oppose all inhibitions and prohibitions because they stimulate violations. That is half-baked thinking. I had not known sin ( την αμαρτιαν ουκ εγνων ). Second aorist indicative of γινωσκω , to know. It is a conclusion of a second class condition, determined as unfulfilled. Usually αν is used in the conclusion to make it plain that it is second class condition instead of first class, but occasionally it is not employed when it is plain enough without as here ( , ). See on . So as to I had not known coveting (lust), επιθυμιαν ουκ ηιδειν . But all the same the law is not itself sin nor the cause of sin. Men with their sinful natures turn law into an occasion for sinful acts.

‏ Romans 7:7-8

Is the law sin? ( ο νομος αμαρτια? ). A pertinent query in view of what he had said. Some people today oppose all inhibitions and prohibitions because they stimulate violations. That is half-baked thinking.

I had not known sin ( την αμαρτιαν ουκ εγνων ). Second aorist indicative of γινωσκω, to know. It is a conclusion of a second class condition, determined as unfulfilled. Usually αν is used in the conclusion to make it plain that it is second class condition instead of first class, but occasionally it is not employed when it is plain enough without as here (Joh 16:22, 24). See on Ga 4:15. So as to

I had not known coveting (lust), επιθυμιαν ουκ ηιδειν. But all the same the law is not itself sin nor the cause of sin. Men with their sinful natures turn law into an occasion for sinful acts.

Finding occasion ( αφορμην λαβουσα ). See 2Co 5:12; 11:12; Ga 5:13 for αφορμην, a starting place from which to rush into acts of sin, excuses for doing what they want to do. Just so drinking men use the prohibition laws as "occasions" for violating them.

Wrought in me ( κατειργασατο εν εμο ). First aorist active middle indicative of the intensive verb κατεργαζομα, to work out (to the finish), effective aorist. The command not to lust made me lust more.

Dead ( νεκρα ). Inactive, not non-existent. Sin in reality was there in a dormant state.