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  • From: "moon-ryul jung" <moon AT sogang.ac.kr>
  • To: corpus-paul AT franklin.oit.unc.edu
  • Subject: The connection between Roman 6:14 and 15.
  • Date: Sat, 26 Jan 2002 02:54:54 -0500



In Romans 6:14-15, we have:
14 For sin shall not rule over you. For you are not under the law
but under grace.
15 What then? Shall we sin because we are not under the law but under
grace? God forbid.

In the case of 6:1, some might have inferred it from
5:21 "just as sin reigned unto death, so did grace through righteousness
unto unto life eternal".

But in the current case, it is not clear. In several commentaries I
consulted it is argued that some might have inferred v.15 from 14b
"For you are not under the law but under grace".

This argument could have worked if 14b "you are not under the law
but under grace" appeared apart from 14a "sin shall not rule over you".
But in the current case, Paul explicitly said that sin shall not rule
over you BASED ON THE FACT that you are not under the law but under
grace. If we regard "we shall not sin" not so different from "sin shall
not rule over us", the fact that we are not under the law under grace
should imply strongly that we shall not sin. Hence it is not clear how
in this context some might have inferred verse 15 from verse 14.

To make it work, we might suppose that perhaps "sin shall not rule over
you" might trigger an inference "So, it is OK for us to think freely
about sin. It is OK for us to sin. We have no reason to fear sin." But
still I cannot imagine how some could have attempted such an inference at
all.

Any comments?

Moon
Moon R. Jung
Sogang Univ, Seoul, Korea




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