Romans 7:24 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

O wretched man that I am! The word signifies one wearied out with continual combats. Who shall deliver me? It is not the voice of one desponding or doubting, but of one breathing and panting after deliverance: the like pathetical exclamations are frequent: see Psalms 55:6. One calls this verse, gemitus sanctorum, the groan of the godly. From the body of this death; or, from this body of death; or, by a Hebraism, from this dead body, this carcass of sin, to which I am inseparably fastened, as noisome every whit to my soul as a dead carcass to my senses. This is another circumlocution, or denomination of original sin. It is called the body of sin, Romans 6:6, and here the body of death; it tends and binds over to death.