The Relationship of Jewish and Gentile Believers to the Law Between A.D. 30 and 70 in the Scripture

221 of the law in redemption history was not its only role. We are reminded of the error which Barr has described as "illegitimate totality transfer." 185 Although voµoc; can refer to several different aspects of God's law for Paul, it is illegitimate to think that every time it appears that Paul refers to every aspect or function of the law . 186 Though a major role of the law (to bring Israel under a curse) was fulfilled at the coming of Christ, Paul simply does not speak to the role of the law as an administrative covenant for the nation of Israel. Whether the role of the Law as Israel's regulatory document did or did not end is not the subject of Paul ' s letter. 187 But the book of Galatians does not provide Paul ' s entire theology of law and though we may eagerly speculate about the missing pieces from what we have seen, such speculation has no revelational basis in this letter. longer looks to it as hi ource of bles ing and (2) the law doe not tand a a barri r bet n Jew and Gentile who are unified in Christ. 185 Jame Barr, emanti s of Biblical Language (0 ford: Uni er it Pr , 1961), 17- 22. 186 ordon, "A note on nm8aywyoc; in alati n :24- 5," 1 0 . unwe would rgu , of ur e, that in d' ie the Old nant n d h nth gan, on alvar .