CLV(i)
7 What, then, shall we declare? That the law is sin? May it not be coming to that! But sin I knew not except through law. For besides, I had not been aware of coveting except the law said, "You shall not be coveting."
8 Now Sin, getting an incentive through the precept, produces in me all manner of coveting. For apart from law Sin is dead."
9 Now I lived, apart from law, once, yet at the coming of the precept Sin revives. Yet I died,