for refusing to break God’s covenant are said to know “that those who die for the sake of God live unto God, as do Abraham and Isaac and Jacob and all the patriarchs” (compare 4 Macc 7:19).326 This is resurrection language, and that fits Paul’s train of thought here. Whereas before his life was oriented to and directed by the law, now his life is oriented to and by God through his Son Jesus Christ (see below). Just as God tore down the Mosaic law with its regulations and built the new covenant through