<p>7:1&nbsp;<i>Or are you ignorant brothers</i>- This continues the appeal to the baptized believers in Rome to not be ignorant of the implications of the things which they have believed and signed up for by baptism into Christ. See on Rom. 6:3.</p><p><i>For I speak to men who know the Law</i>- This could suggest that this section is addressed to those within the ecclesia in Rome who knew the Law, i.e. who were Jews. There were Gentiles in the church (Rom. 1:5-7,13-15) for whom that phrase wouldn&rsquo;t be appropriate. Chapter 7 could therefore be considered as an appeal to the Jewish subgroup within the Roman church. The language of &lsquo;<i>becoming&nbsp;</i>dead to the law&rsquo; in 7:4 would only be appropriate to those who had once lived under it, i.e. Jews.</p><p><i>That the law has dominion over a man for as long as he lives?</i><i>-</i> An allusion to common Rabbinical teaching that the only Jew exempted from keeping the Law is a dead Jew. Paul has been arguing in chapter 6 that we really did die in baptism. Therefore, we are dead- and the Jews themselves taught that a dead man didn&rsquo;t need to keep the Law.</p><table border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0 width=100%>    <tbody>        <tr>            <td width=250 valign=top>            <p>            <b>Romans 6 (about sin)</b></p>            </td>            <td width=250 valign=top>            <p><b>Romans   7 (about the Law)</b></p>            </td>        </tr>        <tr>            <td width=250 valign=top>            <p>&ldquo;Sin   shall not have (anymore) dominion over you: for you are not under the Law&rdquo;   (:14)</p>            </td>            <td width=250 valign=top>            <p>&ldquo;The   Law has dominion over a man... as long as he lives&rdquo; (:1)</p>            </td>        </tr>        <tr>            <td width=250 valign=top>            <p>&ldquo;Dead   indeed unto sin&rdquo; (:11)</p>            </td>            <td width=250 valign=top>            <p>&ldquo;She is   loosed from the Law&rdquo; (:2)</p>            </td>        </tr>        <tr>            <td width=250 valign=top>            <p>&ldquo;Being   then made free from sin&rdquo; (:18)</p>            </td>            <td width=250 valign=top>            <p>&ldquo;She is   free from that Law&rdquo; (:3)</p>            </td>        </tr>        <tr>            <td width=250 valign=top>            <p>&ldquo;As   those that are alive from the dead... you have your fruit unto holiness&rdquo;   (:13,22), having left sin.</p>            </td>            <td width=250 valign=top>            <p>&ldquo;You   should be married to another, even to him who is raised from the dead, that   we should bring forth fruit unto God&rdquo; (:4), having left the Law.</p>            </td>        </tr>        <tr>            <td width=250 valign=top>            <p>&ldquo;Neither   yield your members as instruments of unrighteousness unto sin (as a result of   sin having dominion over you)&rdquo; (:13,14)</p>            </td>            <td width=250 valign=top>            <p>&ldquo;When   we were in the flesh, the motions of sins, which were by the law, did work in   our members... but now we are delivered from the law&rdquo; (:5,6)</p>            </td>        </tr>        <tr>            <td width=250 valign=top>            <p>&ldquo;Therefore...   we also should walk in newness of life&rdquo; (:4)</p>            </td>            <td width=250 valign=top>            <p>&ldquo;We   should serve in newness of spirit, and not in the oldness of the letter&rdquo; of   the Law (:6)</p>            </td>        </tr>    </tbody></table>