Romans 7:7-8

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Sun Jun 11 03:44:28 EDT 2000


7.7 TI OUN EROUMEN  hO NOMOS hAMARTIA;  MH GENOITO:  ALLA THN hAMARTIAN OUK EG
NWN EI MH DIA NOMOU:  THN TE GAR EPIQUMIAN OUK HDEIN EI MH hO NOMOS ELEGEN, OU
K EPIQUMHSEIS.
7.8 AFORMHN DE LABOUSA H hAMARTIA DIA THS ENTOLHS KATEIRGASATO EN EMOI PASAN  
EPIQUMIAN:  CWRIS GAR NOMOU  hAMARTIA  NEKRA.

My name is David Rollins. I have never submitted a question to the list 
before, so I  hope that my transliteration is correct.  I'm not sure of all 
the conventions of spelling that you have adopted.  My question is whether 
you would find my rendering of the verses correct.
    OUK EGNWN ...sin had no way of starting to be known except through law.  
I am taking the anarthrous NOMOU as a reference to law in general rather than 
specifically the Mosaic Law.  I realize many will probably disagree with that 
conclusion, but that is where I have landed in this verse.  I am taking the 
aorist form as indication of the start of an action.
    OUK HDEIN... lust had no way of being fully understood except by an 
explicit command.  I am taking the pluperfect form to imply that there could 
be no completion of the understanding in the past or present without an 
explicit command.  There are quite a few conclusions one could draw from this 
rendering, but I'll see what you all think so far.




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