(for he who appointed Peter to be an apostle of the circumcision appointed me also to the Gentiles);

Paul, an apostle (not commissioned and sent from men nor through the agency of man, but through Jesus Christ—the Messiah—and God the Father, who raised Him from the dead),

Why, then, the Law [what was its purpose]? It was added [after the promise to Abraham, to reveal to people their guilt] because of transgressions [that is, to make people conscious of the sinfulness of sin], and [the Law] was ordained through angels and delivered to Israel by the hand of a mediator [Moses, the mediator between God and Israel, to be in effect] until the Seed would come to whom the promise had been made.

But is under guardians and stewards until the time appointed by the father.

even so we, whilst we were children, were in a state of servitude to the elements of the world. but when the time appointed was accomplished,