Saturday 2021.03.13
Reading from Romans Chapter 7
To you also, the Law died . . .
Most English translations render Romans 7:4 as "you have become dead to the Law", a verse that was illustrated by the analogy of a wife whose husband has died, who is no longer bound to her husband by law, and who is now free to marry another man.
The analogy appears to liken the Christian as the woman who has been set free from the "law of her husband". Verse 4, however, seems rather odd and somewhat incongruous to the analogy when it says "you have become dead" instead of saying "your husband (in this case, the Law of Moses) has become dead".
Today I found a translation, Weymouth New Testament, that removes this incongruity by rendering Romans 7:4 as "to you also the Law died".
So, one may say that, through the Anointed One, our former husband the Law has died, so that we may be married to the Anointed One, the One whom God raised from the dead.
Romans 7:1 - 4 WNT
1 Brethren, do you not know--for I am writing to people acquainted with the Law--that it is during our lifetime that we are subject to the Law?
2 A wife, for instance, whose husband is living is bound to him by the Law; but if her husband dies the law that bound her to him has now no hold over her.
3 This accounts for the fact that if during her husband's life she lives with another man, she will be stigmatized as an adulteress; but that if her husband is dead she is no longer under the old prohibition, and even though she marries again, she is not an adulteress.
4 So, my brethren, *to you also the Law died* through the incarnation of Christ, that you might be wedded to Another, namely to Him who rose from the dead in order that we might yield fruit to God.
