Knowing this, &c.— The apostle's thought seems to be this, "That a law in the general,—(for there is no article, as in 1 Timothy 1:8 to determine or confine it to the Jewish law)—is chiefly intended to restrain men from actions injurious to the public:" what it says, therefore,chiefly relates to crimes, and their punishments; but the genius of Christianity is so sublime, that while it brings us to an all-sufficient Saviour, it leads us to all the heights and depths of holiness and love—to a religion which is not supported by slavish fear, but governs the soul by the most liberal and noble principles which can influence and animate an intellectual being.
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1 Timothy 1:9
9 Knowing this, that the law is not made for a righteous man, but for the lawless and disobedient, for the ungodly and for sinners, for unholy and profane, for murderers of fathers and murderers of mothers, for manslayers,