But we know that the law is good, if a man use it lawfully;
Ver. 8. If a man use it lawfully] For discovery of sin, for manuduction to Christ, and for a rule of life. Lex, lux, Proverbs 6:23. Xenophon telleth us, that this was the drift of the Persian laws, to keep men from acting, yea, from coveting, anything evil or idle, κειται .