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Rom 7:20. Οὐκ ἔτι) no longer,[76] namely, as I formerly used to perpetrate it [taken from κατεργάζομαι]. Some degree of serenity and deliverance gradually arises. I is emphatic, in antithesis to sin. He who says with emphasis, it is not I that will it [non volo ego], instead of the former, I would not [non volo (without ego) I do not will] (Rom 7:15) is already farther removed from sin.
[76] Not now, as in former times, when I was wholly dead in sin.-ED.