Romans 7.15–25a is the epistle for Trinity 5 in Year A, and includes the famous ‘I’-passage over which there has been much debate.
Is Paul speaking in the first person recounting his own experience as a Christian? Or in his pre-Christian life? Or is he recounting the experience of Israel under the law? Or of Adam himself?
The debate is perhaps less complex than it is often supposed—but this passage has profound pastoral significance, as so many of us can relate to Paul’s sense of powerful in the face of the power of sin—and so can rejoice with him in the deliverance through the grace of Jesus by the power of the Spirit.
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The gospel reading for this Sunday is on the paradoxical invitation of Jesus in Matthew 11.16-19, 25-end.
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