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For when we were in the flesh, the sinful passions which were through the law worked in our members to bring out fruit to death.
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Verse 5. For when we were in the flesh; that is lived according to the flesh, the passions of sins, which were by the law: he does not say, as Saint John Chrysostom observes, that they were caused by the law, but only were by it, meaning that they were occasioned by the knowledge of the law, but properly caused by ourselves, and our corrupt inclinations, that were wrought in our members, rather than did work. Witham.
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