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ROM. VI, 14, 15

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The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Oct 13, 1868

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 32, No. 16.

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ROM. VI, 14, 15.

By R. F. Cotterill

“For sin shall not have dominion over you; for ye are not under the law, but under grace. What then? Shall we sin, because we are not under the law, but under grace? God forbid!”
“Sin is the transgression of the law.” Those who are not under the law are not under the dominion of sin; because they have pardon and favor through Jesus Christ. Those over whom sin still has the dominion, are not under grace. Sin has the dominion over them, and holds them under the law—under condemnation to death.
Who are the persons addressed, that are not under the law, but under grace? All that were in Rome, “beloved of God, called saints.” Chap. i, 7. They were not under the law. Is the law abolished? Would it be right for them to transgress its precepts? Shall they transgress the law, because they are not under the law, but under grace? The apostle answers most emphatically in the negative: “God forbid!” The law, then, remains just as it was before the Christians at Rome found grace or pardon; and it is still sin to transgress it. If we yield to sin, we are its servants—under its dominion—and cannot claim to be under grace. See verse 16. There is still such a thing as sin; and it has not become the transgression of the gospel. The apostolic definition of sin is, “The transgression of the law.”
R. F. COTTERILL.