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Rom 8:1. Οὐδέν ἄρα νῦν κατάκριμα, There is therefore now no condemnation) The apostle comes now to deliverance and liberty. Moreover he does not employ the adversative δὲ, but; he uses the conclusive ἄρα, therefore, comp. on ch. Rom 2:1; because at the end of ch. 7. he had already reached the confines of this condition. He also now evidently returns from his admirable digression to the path, which is pursued [he had entered on] at ch. Rom 7:6. And, as a proof of this, the particle now, which denotes present time (like the German würklich, actually, truly) was used there, and is resumed here. Condemned [“God c. sin”] in Rom 8:3, refers to condemnation here.