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Not Paul

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Argument

Paul’s Style

Samples of nonsense

Rom VII. 1 to 25. Tautology

VI. Repeated nonsense much of it

Nonsense about the Law, marriage— adultery, death, body of Christ— resurrection, fruit, flesh, motions of sins, members spirit—letter, least commandment, concupiscence — holy, just & good commandment, spirituality, carnality: concluding with a sad paraphrase of video meliora proboque Deteriora sequor —

1. Know ye not brethren, (for I speak to them that know the law,) how that the law hath dominion over man as long as he liveth?

2. 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.

3. 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 the law; so that she is no adulteress, though she be married to another man.

4. 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 that is raised from the dead, that we should bring forth fruit unto God.

5. 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.

6. But now we are delivered from the law, that being dead wherein we were held; that we sh d serve in newness of spirit, and not in the oldness of the letter.

7. What shall we say then? Is the law sin? God forbid. Nay, I had not known sin, but by ye law: for I had not known lust, except the law had said Thou shalt not covet.