JUST ONE QUESTION FOR YOU, ECCL.
Galatians 2:19 (New King James Version)
[sup]19[/sup] For I through the law died to the law that I might live to God.
Romans 7:4 (New King James Version)
[sup]4[/sup] Therefore, my brethren, you also have become dead to the law through the body of Christ, that you may be married to another—to Him who was raised from the dead, that we should bear fruit to God.
WHAT LAW DID PAUL DIE TO, AND WHAT LAW DID PAUL TELL US THAT WE DIED TO?
ps. AND WHAT DOES IT MEAN TO "DIE" TO?
Original Word: ἀποθνῄσκω
Part of Speech: Verb
Transliteration: apothnéskó
Phonetic Spelling: (ap-oth-nace'-ko)
Short Definition: I am dying, am about to die
Definition: I am dying, am about to die, wither, decay.
599 apothnḗskō (from
575 /apó, "away from," which intensifies
2348 /thnḗskō, "to die") – properly, die
off (away from), focusing on the
separation that goes with the "dying
off (
away from)."
599 /apothnḗskō ("die off, from") occurs 111 times in the NT. It stresses
the significance of the separation that always comes with
divine closure.
599 (
apothnḗskō) stresses the
ending of what is "former" – to bring what (naturally)
follows.
Word Origin
from
apo and
thnéskó
Definition
to die
NASB Word Usage
dead (5), death (1), death* (1), die (34), died (53), dies (12), dying (4), mortal (1), perished (1), put (1).
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be dead, death, die, lie dying, be slain.
From
apo and
thnesko; to die off (literally or figuratively) -- be dead, death, die, lie a-dying, be slain (X with).