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Rom 7:25. Εὐχαριστῶ, I give thanks) This is unexpectedly, though most pleasantly, mentioned, and is now at length rightly acknowledged, as the one and only refuge. The sentence is categorical: God will deliver me by Christ; the thing is not in my own power: and that sentence indicates the whole matter: but the moral made [modus moralis. end.] (of which, see on ch. Rom 6:17), I give thanks, is added. (As in 1Co 15:57 : the sentiment is: God giveth us the victory; but there is added the ηθος, or moral mode, Thanks be to God.) And the phrase, I give thanks, as a joyful hymn, stands in opposition to the miserable complaint, which is found in the preceding verse, wretched that I am.-οὖν, then) He concludes those topics, on which he had entered at Rom 7:7.-αὐτὸς ἐγὼ) I myself.-νόμῳ Θεοῦ-νόμῳ ἁμαρτίας, the law of God-the law of sin) νόμῳ is the Dative, not the Ablative, Rom 7:23. Man [the man, whom Paul personifies] is now equally balanced between slavery and liberty, and yet at the same time, panting after liberty, he acknowledges that the law is holy and free from all blame. The balance is rarely even. Here the inclination to good has by this time attained the greater weight of the two.