John Chrysostom

Now it is not on this only he grounds his exhortation, but also on the superiority of this second husband. And so he proceeds: "that ye should be married to another, even to Him Who is raised from the dead." Then to prevent their saying, If we do not choose to live with another husband, what then? For the Law does not indeed make an adulteress of the widow who lives in a second marriage, but for all that it does not force her to live in it. …

Homily on Romans 12 ↗

Theophylact of Ohrid

If you have died, he says, then you are not under the law. For if a wife after the death of her husband is not subject to liability, then all the more is she free from the yoke of the law when she herself has died. Notice how wisely he proves that the law itself wants people to leave it. And so you also were freed from the law through the body of Christ, crucified for us. For the body was put to death for this very reason, that you might die to the law and be under the authority of another, who died for you and then rose again. …

Commentary on Romans ↗

Clement of Alexandria

But "we are dead to the law by the body of Christ, that we should belong to another, to him who was raised from the dead" and was prophesied by the law: "that we might bear fruit unto God." Therefore "the law is holy and the commandment holy, righteous, and good." We, then, are dead to the law, that is to sin of which the law makes us aware; the law indicates it, it does not give rise to it; by telling us what we ought to do and prohibiting what we ought not to do, the law shows up the sin which lies underneath "that sin may be …

The Stromata Book 3 ↗

Thomas Aquinas

Then when he says, therefore, my brethren, he concludes to his main proposition, saying, therefore, my brethren, you also have died to the law, by the body of Christ, i.e., in becoming members of the body of Christ, dying and being buried with him, as stated above; you have died to the law in the sense that the obligation of the law ceases in you, so that you may belong to another, namely, Christ, in whom, through rising with him, you have received a new life. …

Commentary on Romans ↗