For I was alive without the law once: but when the commandment came, sin revived, and I died.
For I was alive without the law once, х pote (G4218)] - 'at one time,' or 'formerly'-q.d., 'In the days of my ignorance, when, in this sense, a stranger to the law, I deemed myself a righteous man, and, as such, entitled to life at the hand of God.'
But when the commandment came - forbidding all irregular desire, for the apostle sees in this the spirit of the whole law,
Sin revived, - `came to life;' in its malignity and strength it unexpectedly revealed itself, as if sprung from the dead.
And I died - `saw myself, in the eye of a law never kept and not to be kept, a dead man.'