Commentaries:
Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown
give again that he had robbed— (Luke 19:8).
statutes of life—in the obeying of which life is promised (Leviticus 18:5). If the law has failed to give life to man, it has not been the fault of the law, but of man's sinful inability to keep it (Romans 7:10, Romans 7:12; Galatians 3:21). It becomes life-giving through Christ's righteous obedience to it (II Corinthians 3:6).
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