[Sidenote: Ch. vii. Ver. 1.] =Or do you not know, brethren, (for I am talking (λαλῶ) to those acquainted with law,= whether Mosaic or Gentile,) =that the law has claim on the man,= the party (ἄνθρωπος) in any given case, =for his whole lifetime?= [Sidenote: Ver. 2.] =For the woman with a husband (ἀνὴρ) is to her living husband bound by law,= stands all along bound (δέδεται) to him. _His life_, under normal conditions, is his adequate claim. Prove him living, and you prove her his. =But if the husband should have died, she stands ipso facto cancelled[103] (κατήργηται) from the husband's law,= the marriage law as he could bring it to bear against her. [Sidenote: Ver. 3.] =So, therefore, while the husband lives, she will earn adulteress for her name, if she weds another (ἑτέρῳ, "a second") husband. But if the husband should have died, she is free from the law= in question, =so as to be no adulteress, if wedded to another,= a second, =husband.= [Sidenote: Ver. 4.] =Accordingly, my brethren, you too,= as a mystic bride, collectively and individually,[104] =were done to death as to the Law,= so slain that its capital claim upon you is met _and done_, =by means of the Body of the Christ (τοῦ Χριστοῦ),= by "the doing to death" of His sacred Body for you, on His atoning Cross, to satisfy for you the aggrieved Law; =in order to your wedding Another,= a second Party (ἑτέρῳ), =Him who rose from the dead; that we might bear fruit for God;= "_we_," Paul and his converts, in one happy _fellowship_, which he delights thus to remember and indicate by the way.