This means Paul speaks of a principle broader than the Mosaic Law. That the law has dominion over a man: The ancient Greek wording here has no word “ the” before law. After the discussion in Romans 6:15-23 regarding practical implications of this, he now explains more completely how it is that we are no longer under the dominion of the law.ī.
The law has dominion: In Romans 6:14, Paul told us that you are not under law but under grace. So then if, while her husband lives, she marries another man, she will be called an adulteress but if her husband dies, she is free from that law, so that she is no adulteress, though she has married another man.Ī. But if the husband dies, she is released from the law of her husband.
Or do you not know, brethren (for I speak to those who know the law), that the law has dominion over a man as long as he lives? For the woman who has a husband is bound by the law to her husband as long as he lives. (1-3) The law has authority only over the living.
