of God not to commit it; but when the commandment comes, then we recognize sin and the evil of it. 19–21. And it was ordained by angels in the hand of a mediator. Now a mediator is not a mediator of one, but God is one. Is the law then against the promises of God? God forbid: for if there had been a law given which could have given life, verily righteousness should have been by the law. There could not have been a better law. Some talk about the law of God being too severe, too strict, too stringent,