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Is the law sin? (ho nomos hamartiȧ). 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 (tēn hamartian ouk egnōn). Second aorist indicative of ginōskō, to know. It is a conclusion of a second class condition, determined as unfulfilled. Usually an 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, Joh 16:24). See note on Gal 4:15. So as to I had not known coveting (lust), epithumian ouk ēidein. 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.