And I was once alive without the law — Without the close application of it. I had much life, wisdom, virtue, strength: so I thought. But when the commandment — That is, the law, a part put for the whole; but this expression particularly intimates its compulsive force, which restrains, enjoins, urges, forbids, threatens. Came — In its spiritual meaning, to my heart, with the power of God. Sin revived, and I died — My inbred sin took fire, and all my virtue and strength died away; and I then saw myself to be dead in sin, and liable to death eternal.
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Romans 7:9
9 For I was alive without the law once: but when the commandment came, sin revived, and I died.