For he says to Moses: “I will have mercy on whom I have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I have compassion.”

For Moses writes about the righteousness that is by the law: “The one who does these things will live by them.”

But again I ask, didn’t Israel understand? First Moses says, “I will make you jealous by those who are not a nation; with a senseless nation I will provoke you to anger.”

Yet death reigned from Adam until Moses even over those who did not sin in the same way that Adam (who is a type of the coming one) transgressed.