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Chiasm in Rom 7:1-6

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There's a fairly neat chiasm in the first part of Rom 7:

a. law rules while one lives
b. woman bound while husband lives; if husband dies, freed (KATARGEO)
c. while husband lives: adulteress
d. if husband dies: joined to another without adultery
e. you died through Christ, through body of Christ
d'. joined to another to bear fruit
c'. in flesh: passions operated to bring forth fruit to death
b'. liberated from law, KATARGEO
a'. serve in newness of spirit and not in oldness of letter

posted by Peter J. Leithart on Sunday, August 29, 2004 at 07:24 AM

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