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23. ἐν τοῖς μέλεσιν describes the flesh as organised and active in various directions = the σῶμα in detail. Observe that S. Paul does not say ‘of my members’ but ‘in my members.’ He carefully avoids using language which implies that this law is proper to the flesh in its essential nature; it has its lodgment there, but the flesh is destined, and must be claimed, for other and higher allegiance.
τῷ νόμῳ τοῦ νοός μου = the law accepted by my mind, GOD’S law made my own in apprehension and acceptance.
αἰχμαλωτίζοντα |[149] πεπραμένος, Rom 7:14.
[149] | parallel to
τῷ νόμῳ τῆς ἁμ. The law imposed by sin.