Worthy of Notice | AdventAI

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Sep 21, 1869

Worthy of Notice.

“He does not say that the law was not MADE for a righteous man, but οὐ κεῖται, it does not lie against a righteous man; because he does not transgress it; but it lies against the wicked.”—Dr. Clarke on 1 Tim. i. 9.

“The law doth not lie against a righteous man—doth not strike or condemn him.”—Wesley’s Notes.

These observations of Adam Clarke and of John Wesley, give the real sense of the text. They show that this passage has the same sense as Gal. v, 23: ‘Against such [as bear the fruit of the Spirit] there is no law,’ because their lives are in exact accordance with the commandments of God.