Therefore, in this example even of Paul regenerate (for now regenerate he says this about himself) we see that even a regenerate person sometimes is made a slave of sin and is led away captive by it. ‘For what.’ He shows that he is sold under sin and dragged away captive as it were, to serve sin, from the disapproval of the deed that he perpetrates, that is, from the judgment of his mind. From alien judgment from sin that he nevertheless perpetrates, it follows that he is sold under sin as tyranny and is rendered captive to the law of sin.
Robert Rollock | Commentary on Ephesians, trans. Casey Carmichael, Classic Reformed Theology Series vol. 5 (Reformation Heritage Books, 2021), 109.
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Casey Carmichael
Casey Carmichael holds a doctorate in theology from the University of Geneva. He is the author of A Continental View: Johannes Cocceius’s Federal Theology of the Sabbath (Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2019). He is also the coeditor of the Classic Reformed Theology series, published by Reformation Heritage Books. He has translated various works from the Reformed tradition, including J. H. Heidegger’s Concise Marrow of Christian Theology and John Calvin’s Necessity of Reforming the Church.
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