"Know ye not, brethren, (for I speak to them that know the law,) how that the law hath dominion over a man as long as he liveth? For the woman which hath an husband is bound by the law to her husband so long as he liveth; but if the husband be dead, she is loosed from the law of her husband. So then if, while her husband liveth, she be married to another man, she shall be called an adulteress: but if her husband be dead, she is free from that law; so that she is no adulteress, though she be married to another man. Wherefore, my brethren, ye also are become dead to the law by the body of Christ; that ye should be married to another, even to him who is raised from the dead, that we should bring forth fruit unto God. For when we were in the flesh, the motions of sins, which were by the law, did work in our members to bring forth fruit unto death. But now we are delivered from the law, that being dead wherein we were held; that we should serve in newness of spirit, and not in the oldness of the letter."
In today's lesson we should first make note that Paul made a point of saying that this particular message was addressed to the Jews, those who understood their law. "for I speak to them that know the law".
In the body of today's quote, Paul compared the Jewish relationship to God with a Jewish marriage under their law. He made the point, that under that law, when a person is freed from her/his husband/wife by death, that person can remarry whomever he/she pleases without being guilty of adultery. Likewise, when a Jew is freed from the rules of the law by its death (fulfillment by Jesus Christ), that person is freed from what have been considered sin under that law.
We should note that none of this applies to Gentiles because they were never subjected to the rules of that law.~
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