"But this I am saying: a covenant having been previously ratified by God, the law having come to be four hundred and thirty years after, is not canceling unto the to be nullifying the promise.’
-Now Paul summarizes. Recall that there were those who were insisting to these Galatian believers that the covenant promise required one to be circumcised and to observe the entirety of the Mosaic law. Every last jot and tittle. On this point, they were sadly mistaken. The law was given after the exodus, more than four hundred years after God made this great promise of blessing and justification by faith to Abraham. And since - as we have just seen - one does not ever set aside or add conditions to a covenant, especially not one which has been ratified by God Himself, there can be no way on earth (or in heaven for that matter) that what was given to Moses and to the nation of Israel at Mount Sinai as they prepared to take possession of the land of Canaan was binding on those who would lay hold of the promise and blessing of Abraham. There is no universe in which the law would ever supercede or cancel out or otherwise nullify this promise God made to Abraham the believer, the man of faith, the father of the faith-ful. The promise of being made completely right with God, in His eyes, by faith alone still stands intact. It came first, and it still does. It is still fully in force, for anyone who would believe - like Abraham.
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