Verse 3
3. Law could not do Namely, make the righteousness required to be fulfilled in us, (Romans 8:4.) Physical law, having to do with dead matter, secures its own fulfilment; moral law, having to do with free agents, cannot necessarily secure the obedience of the wilfully wicked.
Weak… flesh Unable to secure its own fulfilment on account of the depraved persistence in disobedience.
God The nominative to condemned.
Likeness of sinful flesh He was the reality of human flesh, like unfallen Adam; he was only the likeness of sinful flesh, like fallen Adam.
His own Emphatic, as Alford remarks; his own, therefore sinless; in contrast to sinful and sin twice named.
For On account of. God sent his Son, both in sinful likeness and on account of sin, in order to bring us to perfect holiness.
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