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Become death unto me? (emoi egeneto thanatoṡ). Ethical dative emoi again. New turn to the problem. Admitting the goodness of God’s law, did it issue in death for me? Paul repels (mē genoito) this suggestion. It was sin that (But sin, alla hē hamartia) “became death for me.”
That it might be shown (hina phanēi). Final clause, hina and second aorist passive subjunctive of phainō, to show. The sinfulness of sin is revealed in its violations of God’s law.
By working death to me (moi katergazomenē thanaton). Present middle participle, as an incidental result.
Might become exceedingly sinful (genētai kath' huperbolēn hamartōlos). Second aorist middle subjunctive of ginomai with hina in final clause. On kath' huperbolēn, see note on 1Co 12:31. Our hyperbole is the Greek huperbolē. The excesses of sin reveal its real nature. Only then do some people get their eyes opened.