The Pulpit Commentary on Romans 7:1

The Pulpit Commentary · Joseph S. Exell and contributors · Public domain

Are ye ignorant, brethren (for I speak to persons knowing law), how that the Law hath dominion over a man for so long time as he liveth? i.e. so long as the man liveth; not so long as the Law liveth in the sense of viget, or "remains in force," though Origen, Ambrose, Grotius, Erasmus, and others, for reasons that will appear, understood the latter sense.

It is not the natural one.

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