that Christ gave himself to rescue us from this present evil age (1:4), Paul concludes that Christ’s death effected something that doing the works of the law could not. Consequently, when he discusses the law and the promise in Galatians 3, he notes that if a law had been given that was capable of giving life, then righteousness would have come through the law (3:21). In light of the new life that he enjoys in Christ (2:20), Paul concludes that the law could not give such righteousness, which he