A | John 8: 32. The truth shall make you free.

Expansion in verse 34, "Whosoever committeth sin is the servant of sin".

B | John 8: 36. The Son makes free indeed.

C | Gal. 5: 1. Stand fast. Yoke of bondage.

A | Rom. 6: 18, 22. Ye became servants of righteousness.

Ye became servants of God "Being made free from sin."

B | Rom. 8: 2. In Christ Jesus, free from sin and death.

C | Rom. 8: 21. Made free from the bondage of corruption.

The key to the involved argument of John 8: 31-58 is the allegory built upon the

history of Isaac and Ishmael, developed by the Apostle in Gal. 4:, but well known to the

Jewish reader. The A.V. prints the word Son with a capital S assuming that John 8: 35

refers to Christ. This is altered in the R.V. The argument is borrowed from Gen. 21: 10

and quoted in Gal. 4: 30:

In the verse following in John 8:, The Son Who sets us free is of course Christ.

The truth makes us free. The Son makes us free. Rom. 6: 18 and 22 repeat, in more

doctrinal language, what is recorded in John 8: 32-36. Rom. 8: 2 says:

Sonship is the antithesis of slavery, and the key word of Rom. 8: is "sonship". The

Greek words huios "son" and huiothesia "to place as a son" or "adoption" are of course

A | 1-5-. No condemnation. God sent His Own Son.

(huios)

B | -5-15-. Led by Spirit. Sons now.

(huios)

C | -15-17-. Spirit itself. Sonship (adoption).

(huiothesia)

D | -17-21. Suffering and Glory. Sons manifested.

(huios)

C | 22-28. Spirit itself. Sonship (adoption).

(huiothesia)

B | 29, 30. Conformed to image of His Son. Then.

(huios)

A | 31-39. Who condemns? God spare not His Own Son.

(huios)

In considering the expression "The law of the spirit of life" or "the law of sin and

death", we must remember that the word "law" is often used in Scripture in a sense fuller

and deeper than the law of Moses. While in the earlier chapters of Romans (2:-7:) we

are mainly concerned with the law of Moses, at verse 21 of chapter 7:, we pass on to the

discovery of another law.