Word Pictures in the New Testament - David Cox

Word Pictures in the NT [Romans: Chapter 7].
\katergazomai\, to work out (to the finish), effective aorist.
The command not to lust made me lust more. {Dead} (\nekra\).
Inactive, not non-existent. Sin in reality was there in a dormant
state.
7:9 {I was alive} (\ez•n\). Imperfect active. Apparently, "the
lost paradise in the infancy of men" (Denney), before the
conscience awoke and moral responsibility came, "a seeming life"
(Shedd). {Sin revived} (\h• hamartia anez•sen\). Sin came back to
life, waked up, the blissful innocent stage was over, "the
commandment having come" (\elthous•s t•s entol•s\, genitive
absolute). {But I died} (\eg• de apethanon\). My seeming life was
over for I was conscious of sin, of violation of law. I was dead
before, but I did not know. Now I found out that I was
spiritually dead.
7:10 {This I found unto death} (\heureth• moi--haut• eis
thanaton\). Literally, "the commandment the one for (meant for)
life, this was found for me unto death." First aorist (effective)
passive indicative of \heurisk•\, to find, not active as the
English has it. It turned out so for me (ethical dative).
7:11 {Beguiled me} (\ex•pat•sen me\). First aorist active
indicative of \exapata•\, old verb, completely (\ex\) made me
lose my way (\a\ privative, \pate•\, to walk). See on ¯1Co 3:18;
2Co 11:3. Only in Paul in N.T. {Slew me} (\apekteinen\). First
aorist active indicative of \apoktein•\, old verb. "Killed me
off," made a clean job of it. Sin here is personified as the
tempter (Ge 3:13).
7:12 {Holy, and righteous, and good} (\hagia kai dikaia kai
agath•\). This is the conclusion (wherefore, \h•ste\) to the
query in verse 7. The commandment is God's and so holy like
Him, just in its requirements and designed for our good. The
modern revolt against law needs these words.
7:13 {Become death unto me?} (\emoi egeneto thanatos?\). Ethical
dative \emoi\ again. New turn to the problem. Admitting the
goodness of God's law, did it issue in death for me? Paul repels
(\m• genoito\) this suggestion. It was sin that (But sin, \alla
h• hamartia\) "became death for me." {That it might be shown}
(\hina phan•i\). Final clause, \hina\ and second aorist passive
subjunctive of \phain•\, to show. The sinfulness of sin is
revealed in its violations of God's law. {By working death to me}
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