...draws on further material from Exodus in order to make his reference to this event still more precise. The law was "ordained through angels by the hand of a mediator" (Gal. 3. 19). The description of Moses (unnamed in Galatians) as a "mediator" derives from the aftermath...

...its aspects. He is the first NT writer to use the term mediator (¿MO-ÎTTJÏ), viz. where he says the law •was ordained through angels by the hand of a mediator,' and adds, ' now a mediator is not of one ; but God is one ' (Gal 3"- "). Winer states that the number...

...spoken through angels — That is, the Law, whether or not we fully understand yet Galatians 3.19, "The Law . . . was ordained through angels by the hand of a mediator"; or, "This is he [Moses] that was in the assembly in the wilderness with the angel* that spake to him...

...human nature, as stated above (Q. 20, A. 1). Hence on Gal. iii. 20, Christ is a Mediator (Vulg.,— Now a mediator is not of one, but God is one), the gloss says: Not the Father nor the Holy Ghost. The Holy Ghost, however, is said to ask for us, because...

...the Law as a system Paul adduces the circumstances of its promulgation as related in Jewish legend. The Law 'was ordained through angels, by the hand of a mediator' (Gal. iii. 1 9). It had reached man only at two removes from God. It was promulgated by angels; and...

...the Holy Scriptures, given to us through the Angels, according to the saying of the Apostle, that " the law was ordained through angels by the hand of a mediator " ;2 and, finally, we are led through the hierarchies and hierarchic orders, which in our minds have...