Near the city of Tarsus where Paul grew up, a certain ancient tribe had a particular way of sentencing convicted murderers. The corpse of the slain person was lashed tightly to the body of the murderer. In a few days, the decay of the person he had slain would infect and kill the criminal.
Now whether or not this served as the background for Paul's use of "body of death" is impossible to prove. However, the illustration is quite appropriate. ALL of us are as the criminal of Tarsus. We have been inseparably united with a "body of death." And it is this "body of death" that destroys us!
Now, while every man alive is bound by a "body of death" once again it is the Christian that recognizes this truth!
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