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Rom 7:24. Ταλαίπωρος ἐγὼ ἄνθρωπος) [“O wretched man that I am!” Engl. Vers. But Beng.] wretched me, who am [inasmuch as I am] a man! Man, if he were without sin, is noble as well as blessed; with sin, he rather wishes not to be a man at all, than to be such a man as man actually is: The man [whom Paul personifies] speaks of the state of man in itself, as it is by nature. This cry for help is the last thing in the struggle, and, after that henceforth convinced, that he has no help in himself, he begins, so to speak, unknowingly to pray, who shall deliver me? and he seeks deliverance and waits, until God shows Himself openly in Christ, in answer to that who. This marks the very moment of mystical death.[80] Believers to a certain extent continue to carry with them something of this feeling even to the day of their death,[81] Rom 8:23.-ρύσεται, shall deliver) Force is necessary. The verb is properly used; for ρύεσθαι, is, ἐκ ΘΑΝΑΤΟΥ ἕλκειν (to drag from DEATH), Ammonius from Aristoxenus.-ἐκ) from.-τοῦ σώματος, from the body of death) the body being dead on account of sin, ch. Rom 8:10. The death of the body is the full carrying into execution of that death, of which Rom 7:13 treats, and yet in death there is to be deliverance.-τούτου) σῶμα θανάτου τούτου is said for σῶμα θανάτου τοῦτο, the body of this death, for, this body of death.-Comp. Act 5:20, note.
[80] The becoming figuratively dead in a spiritual sense to the law and to sin, ver. 4.-ED.
[81] This longing for deliverance from the body of this death.-ED.