<p>3:12 <i>And the law is not of faith</i>- Today likewise, legalism does not induce faith. It is our awareness of our disobedience and a deep sense of inability to be righteous which leads us to the faith which is a throwing of ourselves upon Divine grace and the Lord's cross.</p><p><i>But: He that does the commandments shall live in them</i>- The 'living' in view, in the context, seems to be 'living eternally'; for Paul has just said that the righteous shall live eternally by faith (:11). He therefore understood Lev. 18:5 to mean that life eternal was possible through perfect obedience to the Mosaic law: &quot;You shall therefore keep My statutes and My ordinances; which if a man does, he shall live in them&quot;. Notice that &quot;in them&quot; is added by the translators to make better sense of the simple statement that the obedient man &quot;shall live&quot;. The truth of this interpretation is in the fact the Lord Jesus was indeed perfectly obedient to the Law and therefore lived for ever; He had to die for multiple reasons, but it was not possible that death should hold Him, seeing He had the right to eternal life through His perfect obedience; and therefore He was resurrected.</p>