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4. ἵνα. The object of the sending and the condemnation of sin.
τὸ δικαίωμα, the righteous claim of the law. The law as GOD‘s revealed will has a claim over man: the same act which repudiated the claim of sin provided for the fulfilment of the claim of the law. Law and sin are here conceived as litigants for the ownership of man.
ἐν ἡμῖν. Not ὑφ' ἡμῶν: in us as renewed in Christ.
τοῖς μὴ κ.τ.λ. Not = if we walk, but in us in the character of men whose principle of conduct is regulated not by flesh but by spirit. A summary description of the true life of man, seen and made possible in Christ.
κατὰ σάρκα … κατὰ πνεῦμα. This antithesis at last becomes explicit, and is developed in Rom 8:5-8. In Rom 7:25 the antithesis was νοῦς and σάρξ; here, when it is more a question of the roots of action, it is πνεῦμα and σάρξ.