But if you bite and devour one another, take heed that you be not consumed one of another.
All Commentaries on Galatians 5:15 Go To Galatians 5
Jerome
AD 420
Paul is not here erupting suddenly into ad hoc legal precepts against the tenor and sequence of the whole letter. He is still discussing circumcision and the observance of the law…. If you read the whole Old Testament and understand it according to the text “an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth” … what appears as justice will eat you away, not avenging anything but consuming everything. .
