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Jamieson, Fausset & Brown on Romans 7:19

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Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown · 19th-century historical commentary
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For, &c.--The conflict here graphically described between a self that "desires" to do good and a self that in spite of this does evil, cannot be the struggles between conscience and passion in the unregenerate, because the description given of this "desire to do good" in Rom 7:22 is such as cannot be ascribed, with the least show of truth, to any but the renewed.
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