the command that meant life proved death for me.
Now if the administration of death which was engraved in letters of stone, was invested with glory — so much so, that the children of Israel could not gaze at the face of Moses on account of the dazzling glory that was fading from his face;
Moses writes of law-righteousness, Anyone who can perform it, shall live by it.
and the Law is not based on faith: no, he who performs these things shall live by them),
(What the Law produces is the Wrath, not the promise of God; where there is no law, there is no transgression either.)
I lived at one time without law myself, but when the command came home to me, sin sprang to life and I died;