"Much more then, being now justified by his blood, we shall be saved from wrath through him. For if, when we were enemies, we were reconciled to God by the death of his Son, much more, being reconciled, we shall be saved by his life. And not only so, but we also joy in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom we have now received the atonement. Wherefore, as by one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin; and so death passed upon all men, for that all have sinned: (For until the law sin was in the world: but sin is not imputed when there is no law."
This short lesson further confirms that although the disobedience of Adam condemned all mankind to eternal death, the Law of Moses exposed the Jews to sins of the flesh by causing such sin to be imputed through the disobedience of that law.
To put this into more understandable terms, until God imposed the law of Moses upon the Jews as a lesson to them (and us), there was no such thing as sin in the flesh. None of those things restricted by the law would be sins if the law had never been imposed. Therefore, carnal sin was imputed into the Jews (and anyone else who bound themselves to it) by, and through, the Law of Moses.
The point of all this, the "operation of God", will become clearer as this lessons progress.~
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