Neil:  I have remarked over and over again for many years that profound theology is to be found in what the translators have enclosed in parentheses ("The Theology of the Parentheses"???).  1 Cor. 9:21 is a classic case.  Our conclusion from this text should be that our relationship to the law is not one of "underness" to an externally written code, or one of "withoutness" as in true antinomianism, but one of "inness" to a King/Prophet/Priest to whom we have been joined as a mediating Substitute.  We are one with him, "in Him", and He dwells within us.  This personal, relational "inness" is the only appropriate New  Covenant answer to the question of our relationship to the "Law" this side of the Crucifixion.  2 Cor. 3 makes this very clear.  When someone remarks, "What about the Law of God?", our response might well be, "What about my indwelling Savior, the Son of God?"

Soli Deo Gloria,

John T. "Jack" Jeffery

<< 1 Cor. 9:21 "To those not having the law I became like one not having the law (though I am not free from Good's law but am under Christ's law), so as to win those not having the law. (NIV) I know the context here is Paul living free from the constraints of law in order to win non Jews, however it
is missed that in every translation of this verse, translators miss the mark when they translate "under Christ's law" when it is literally "in law to Christ". NCT is not antinomianism and I fear that all too often NCT's are
perceived as being such by CT's. >>