Romans Chapter 7 Vs. 2

 

Released from the Law

For the woman which hath an husband is bound by the law to her husband so long as he liveth; but if the husband be dead, she is loosed from the law of her husband. Rom 7:2

be dead, she... Death breaks all marriage bonds.

In (verses 2 and 3), we see that these two verses are not a complex allegory, but a simple analogy, using marriage law to illustrate the point Paul just made about law’s jurisdiction. This passage is not teaching that only the death of a spouse frees a Christian to remarry; but it is not teaching about divorce and remarriage. Both Christ and Paul have fully addressed those issues elsewhere.

This is a self-evident truth, which Paul then illustrated by marriage. A married woman (lit., “the under-a-man woman”) is bound (perf. tense, “has been bound and stands bound”) to her husband as long as he is alive. But if her husband dies (in Gr., a third-class condition indicating a real possibility) she is released (perf. tense, “has been and stands discharged”) from the law of marriage (lit., “from the law of the man”). She is bound to him by marriage as her husband while he lives, and obviously his death frees her from that marriage.