is, that this old man, the body of sin, is deprived of its force and reigning power, is enervated and enfeebled; so that from henceforth we are not in servitude to it, or under its dominion, though it remaineth in us. IT is to be observed, that the word here rendered, is freed, (or made free,) should, according to its common use and meaning, be rendered, is justified; and so the margin of our books have it. I see that the apostle’s using