10And the commandment, which was ordained to life, I found to be unto death.
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For Moses describeth the righteousness which is of the law, That the man which doeth those things shall live by them.
But if the ministration of death, written and engraven in stones, was glorious, so that the children of Israel could not stedfastly behold the face of Moses for the glory of his countenance; which glory was to be done away:
Ye shall therefore keep my statutes, and my judgments: which if a man do, he shall live in them: I am the LORD.
And the law is not of faith: but, The man that doeth them shall live in them.
Notwithstanding the children rebelled against me: they walked not in my statutes, neither kept my judgments to do them, which if a man do, he shall even live in them; they polluted my sabbaths: then I said, I would pour out my fury upon them, to accomplish my anger against them in the wilderness.
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 7-13)To what he had said in the former paragraph, the apostle here raises an objection, which he answers very fully: What shall we say then? Isa. the law sin ? When he had been speaking of the dominion of sin, he had said so much of the influence of the law as a covenant upon that dominion that it might easily be misinterpreted as a reflection upon the law, to prevent which he shows from his own experi…
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