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Rom 8:2. Νόμος τοῦ πνεύματος) the law of the spirit, the Gospel inscribed on the heart; comp. ch. Rom 3:27; 2Co 3:8. The spirit makes alive, and this life invigorates [vegetat] the Christian.-ἠλευθέρωσέ με, hath made me free) a mild term, and in the preterite tense; he had formerly put the weightier verb ῥύσεται in the future. Grace renders that most easy, which seems difficult to man under the law, or rather does it itself. Both are opposed to the phrase, bringing me into captivity, ch. Rom 7:23.-τῆς ἁμαρτίας καὶ τοῦ θάνατου, of sin and death) He has respect to those things which he said in behalf of the law of God, ch. Rom 7:7; Rom 7:13. Observe that and is put here, and is not put at the beginning of the verse in the antithesis, πνεύματος τῆς ζωῆς, of the spirit of life, where either the conjunctive particle is wanting, of spirit, [and] of life, or it must be explained thus, τὸ Πνεῦμα τῆς ζωῆς, the Spirit of life.