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Rom 7:12. Ἅγιος, holy) supply from what follows, and just and good; although it was necessary to accumulate these synonymous terms chiefly in defence of the commandment, with its stinging power [rather than of the law]: holy, just, good, in relation respectively to its efficient cause, its form, and its end; (as we find in the MS. notes of Dorscheus) or holy in respect of my duties to God; just, in respect of my neighbour; good in respect of my own nature;[71] with which whatever is commanded is in harmony, for life is promised, Rom 7:10. The third of these three epithets is taken up with very great propriety in the following verse.
[71] Δίκαιος Th. δίκη, is that which is precisely what it should be, without regard to the question whether good or evil flow from it, just, right. But ἀγαθός, what is profitable and of benefit to men. The commandment is δίκαια, for it teaches nothing but what is just; ἀγαθή, for it regards the happiness of those, to whom it is given. It is also ἅγια, not because it makes holy, but because it is holy in itself, sacred to God, and therefore to be held inviolate.-See Tittmann Syn. Gr. Text.-ED.