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12 ff. The suggestion of Rom 6:1 is reversed: the slave is free, the tyrant deposed, the service changed, the instruments of service refurbished, the power of service quickened.
μὴ βασιλευέτω, pres. of the continued reign, under these altered conditions.
ἡ ἁμαρτία, the sin which hitherto reigned.
ἐν τῷ θνητῷ ὑ. ς. Cf. 2Co 4:11 = even in your mortal body; the body, which yet must die, must not be allowed to minister to the deeper death.
ταῖς ἐπιθυμίαις α. Cf. Rom 1:24. ἐπιθυμία (sing.) is used in a good sense only thrice in N.T. (Luk 22:15; Php 1:23; 1Th 2:17); otherwise always in a bad sense, of the natural desire when not under the direction of νοῦς or πνεῦμα; cf. Gal 5:16; Eph 4:22; 1Pe 1:14; Joh 2:16.