Romans 8:3

For what the Gezetz was unable to do in that it was weak through the basar, + 8:3 fallen human nature under Chet Kadmon and without hitkhadshut renewal and regeneration by the Ruach Hakodesh G-d sent his own Zun fun der Oybershter + 8:3 Moshiach in the very demut (likeness) of the basar of sinful humanity and as a chattat + 8:3 2C 5:21 (sin offering, sin atoning sacrifice), and both pronounced and effected a sentence of death on HaChet baBasar (Sin in the Flesh, in the fallen old humanity),

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For what the law could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, and for sin, condemned sin in the flesh:

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2For the Torah of the Ruach HaKodesh that gives Chayyim in Moshiach Yehoshua + 8:2 Jer 31:31-34; Ezek 36:26-27; Gn 2:16-17; 3:7,11,19; 5:12-20 has set me free from the “Gezetz” of Chet and Mavet.

4In order that the maleh chukat haTorah + 8:4 see Lv 18:5 (the full statute requirement of the Torah) might be fulfilled in us whose halakhah is in the Derech [HaChayyim] (the Way [of Life]) according to the Ruach Hakodesh and not in accordance with the basar.

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Cross References

Numbers 21:9And Moshe made a nachash of nechoshet, put it upon a pole, and it came to pass, that if a nachash had bitten any man, when he beheld the nachash hanechoshet, then he lived. + 21:9 See Yn 3:14-15

John 1:14And the Dvar Hashem did mitgashem (become bodily) and made his Sukkah, his Mishkan (Tabernacle) among us, + 1:14 Isa 7:14 and we + 1:14 Shlichim, 1Y 1:1-2 gazed upon his Shekhinah, + 1:14 Ex 33:18; 40:34; Isa 60:1-2 the Shekhinah of the Ben Yachid from Elohim HaAv, full of Hashemʼs Chesed v'Emes.

John 9:24They called a second time, therefore, the man who had been ivver (blind) and said to him, V'ten lo todah (Give glory to G-d). + 9:24 Josh 7:19 We have da'as that this man is a choteh (sinner). + 9:24 Ps 68:35; Josh 7:19

Romans 3:20For by + 3:20 Ro 2:17 [depending on] ma'asim of gezetz + 3:20 Ro 2:17; 4:2 shall KOL CHAI LO YITZDAK + 3:20 Ps 143:2 (all living not be justified), for through the gezetz + 3:20 Gn 2:16-17 (law) comes Da'as HaChet + 3:20 Gn 3:7 (knowledge of sin).

Romans 7:5For when we were in the basar (in the fallen condition of the old humanity), through the Gezetz, the ta'avat besarim, the sinful passions + 7:5 i.e., Chet Kadmonʼs yetzer harah of the fallen human condition were working in our natural capacities, so as to bear p'ri for mavet (death). + 7:5 cf. Ro 4:15

Romans 9:3For I could wish that my neshamah be put under cherem (ban of destruction), under Churban, and Onesh Gehinnom, cut off from Moshiach for the sake of my achim, my own kinsmen, my people and flesh and blood relatives,

Matthew Henry on Romans 8:2-10

The Believer's Privileges. ( a. d. 58.) 1 There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit. 2 For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the law of sin and death. 3 For what the law could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, and for sin, condemned sin in the flesh: 4 That the righteousness of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not after… Read the whole commentary →

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