Haweis(i)
17 Now this I say, the covenant confirmed of God to Christ, the law, which was given three hundred and thirty years after, cannot disannul, so as to vacate the promise.
18 For if the inheritance is of the law, it is no more by promise; but to Abraham God gave it freely by promise.
19 To what end then was the law given? It was given on account of transgressions, until that seed should come to whom the promise was made, being delivered through the ministry of angels into the hand of a mediator.
20 But the mediator of the one [seed] he is not, though God is one.
21 Is the law then contrary to the promises of God? God forbid. For if there had been a law given which was capable of procuring life, verily righteousness would have been by the law.
22 But the scripture hath shut up all things under sin, that the promise by faith in Jesus Christ might be given to those who believe.
23 But before the faith came, we were in ward under the law, shut up together for the faith that should be revealed.
24 Wherefore the law was our conductor, as of children, to Christ, that we might be justified by faith.