GAL. 2.19, 20.For I through the Law, am dead to the Law, that I might live unto God.
THe words depend upon the former, and are brought in as a reason to bring Peter to a sight of his error in dissembling with the Jews.
Yet notwithstanding, because they are entire in themselves, observe, That in the words the Apostle describes his freedome from the Law, of himselfe, and of all such others as himselfe was.
Observe therefore his estate in reference to the Law; First, Dead to the Law; Secondly, observe in this 19. verse, the occasion of that his freedome, and the meanes of it, I through the Law, am dead to the Law; here is exprest the end of such his death to the Law, which is, that he might live un∣to God; which death of his to the Law, and his li∣ving unto God, are both of them amplified by