Stand fast therefore in the liberty with which Christ has made us free, and be not entangled again with the yoke of bondage.
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Cornelius a Lapide
AD 1637
SYNOPSIS OF THE CHAPTER
i. S. Paul proceeds to urge the Galatians not to submit to the yoke of the Old Law, lest they be deprived of the fruits of Christ"s righteousness, since in Him neither circumcision nor uncircumcision will avail anything, but only faith which worketh by love.
ii. He invites them (ver13) to Christian liberty, and shows that it is based on charity, which causes him to pass from the dogmatic to the ethical portion of the Epistle.
iii. He points out (ver17) how the flesh lusts against the Spirit, and then he enumerates the works of each respectively.
