ACC ~ Romans 7 v3

MOSAIC MARRIAGE LAW ITSELF FORESHADOWS THE GOSPEL. ORIGEN: Did not the law itself contain a foreshadowing of something like this when it commanded that a widow who was childless (for her husband had been impotent) should marry his brother? For the law of the Spirit is the brother of the law of the letter, and the woman will be better able to bear fruit from him. COMMENTARY ON THE EPISTLE TO THE ROMANS.

“CHRISTIANS” WHO LET THE LAW REMAIN ALIVE IN THEM ARE LIKE ADULTERERS. AMBROSIASTER: For just as a woman is freed by the death of her husband from the law of her husband but not from the law of nature, so also they will be set free by the grace of God from the law by which they were held captive, so that it will be dead for them and they will not be adulterers by being joined to Christianity. For if the law lives in them they are adulterers and have no right to be called Christians, since they will be subject to punishment. Nor will he who is joined to the gospel after the death of the law and later returns to the law be an adulterer to the law but to the gospel. For when the law’s authority ceases, it is said to be dead. COMMENTARY ON PAUL’S EPISTLES.

ONCE THE HUSBAND IS DEAD, THE WOMAN IS FREE. PELAGIUS: As long as her husband is alive, a woman must live according to his will alone, but once he is dead and she is married to another man, she should no longer live in the manner of her former husband. PELAGIUS’S COMMENTARY ON ROMANS.

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