Romans 8:20

Romans 8:20. Not willingly— That is, "Not by any wilful act of their own." The word 'Εκουσα seems here to have the same signification as εκουσιως, wilfully, Heb 10:26 or as the word θελοντας, 2 Peter 3:5.—This they are willfully ignorant of. What we render lie not in wait, Exo 21:13 the LXX render ουκ εκων, not wilfully, in opposition to presumptuously in the next verse. Thus the word εκουσα denotes a criminal choice, and in a high sense too; namely a transgression subjecting to wrath: "The creature was made subject to vanity, not by its own criminal choice,—not by sinning after the similitude of Adam's transgression, ch. Romans 5:14.,—but by reason of, or through him who subjected the same in hope."