interpretation falls foul of the sober recognition of the continuing sinfulness of Christians to be found (according to what we are convinced is the more probable exegesis) in chapter 7. While it is reasonable to infer from πῶς ἔτι ζήσομεν ἐν αὐτῇ; that the death to sin which Christians are here said to have died is, according to Paul, an event which has rendered their continuing in sin something essentially absurd, both 7:14–25 and also the imperatives in this present chapter alike forbid