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Rom 7:23. Βλέπω) I see, from the higher department of the soul, as from a watch-tower, [the department, or region of the soul] which is called νοῦς, the mind, and is itself the repository of conscience.-ἕτερον, another [law] and one alien [to the law of my mind].-μέλεσι, in the members) The soul is, as it were, the king; the members are as the citizens; sin is, as an enemy, admitted through the fault of the king, who is doomed to be punished by the oppression of the citizens.-τῷ νόμῳ τοῦ νοός μου) the dictate [law] of my mind, which delights in the Divine law.-αἰχμαλωτίζοντά με, bringing me into captivity) by any actual victory which it pleases.[78] The apostle again uses rather a harsh term, arising from holy impatience:[79] the allegory is taken from war, comp. the similar term, warring.
[78] i.e. leading me at will to do whatever it pleases.-ED.
[79] To express his holy impatience to be rid of the tyrant.-ED.