Not Moses against Christ
The apostle does not here oppose the covenant given by Moses to the covenant given by Christ. If we ever imagined this, it was for want of observing that the latter part of these words, as well as the former, was spoken by Moses himself to the people of Israel, and that concerning the covenant which then was. Deuteronomy 30:11-12, 14. But it is the covenant of grace, which God through Christ has established with men in all ages, as well before and under the Jewish dispensation as since God was manifest in the flesh, which Saint Paul here opposes to the covenant of works, made with Adam while he was in paradise. That covenant of works was commonly supposed to be the only covenant which God had made with man, particularly by those Jews of whom the apostle writes.
1771 text
|Moses| describeth the righteousness which is of the law, that the man which doeth those things shall live by them.
1. THE apostle does not here oppose the covenant given by Moses, to the covenant given by Christ. If we ever imagined this, it was for want of observing, that the latter, as well as the former part of these words, were spoken by Moses himself, to the people of Israel, and that, concerning the covenant which then was. (Deut. xxx. 11, 12, 14.) But it is the covenant of grace, which God through Christ hath established with men in all ages, (as well before, and under the Jewish dispensation, as since God was manifest in the flesh) which St. Paul here opposes to the covenant of works, made with Adam while in paradise; but commonly supposed to be the only covenant which God had made with man, particularly by those Jews of whom the apostle writes.