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Rom 7:9. Ἔζων, I was alive) ζῇν here does not merely signify to pass one’s life, but it is put in direct antithesis to death. This is the pharisaic tone, comp. the following verse. [I seemed to myself indeed to be extremely well, V. g.]-χωρὶς νόμου, without the law) the law being taken out of the way, being kept at a distance, as if it did not exist.-ἐλθούσης) The antithesis to χερὶς-ἐντολῆς, the commandment) ἐντολὴ, a commandment is part of the law, with the addition of a more express idea in it of compulsory power, which restrains, enjoins, urges, prohibits, threatens.-ἀνέζησεν, revived) just as [even as] it had been alive, when it had entered into the world by Adam.