Matthew Poole and continuators on Galatians 2:19

19 For I through the law am dead to the law , that I might live unto God .

Through the law of Christ, (as some say) or rather, through the Law of Moses, (of which he had been before speaking) That is, (say some) through the death of the Law: The Law it self being dead, as a covenant of works: (Rom. 7.1.) Or rather, by means of the Law, giving me a knowledge of sin, and condemning me for sin.

Am dead to the Law; as to any expectation of being justified by obedience to it.

Not that I might live in disobedience to it, as it is a rule of life, but that I might live more holily unto God: So as my being dead to the Law, as a covenant of works, or as to any expectation of being justified from my obedience to it, gives me no liberty to sin at all; for this is the end why God hath freed me from the bondage and rigour of the Law, that I might live unto him, and serve him without fear; in Holiness and Righteousness.

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