Know (1) 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?
(1) By expounding the similitude of marriage, he compares together the state of man both before and after regeneration. The law of matrimony, he says, is this, that as long as the husband lives, the marriage remains binding, but if he is dead, the woman may marry again.