covet. But, he says, I see another law in my members, opposing the law of my mind and making me captive under the law of sin that is in my members (Rom 7:23). He refers to the law in his members as the very burden of mortality, under which we groan who are burdened by it.11 For the body that is corruptible weighs down the soul (Wis 9:15). Because of this it often happens that what is impermissible is ineluctably delightful. Therefore he refers to the law as an oppressive and burdensome weight, because