https:https://www.studylight.org/commentaries/mlg/galatians-5.html. 1859. When you try to do a thing you cannot do it as well as when you do it without trying. Galatians 5:5 "For we through the Spirit wait for the hope of righteousness by faith." Life comes first; works, afterwards. But the removal of the full stop after ἐλευθέρας at once restores the full force of the original passage: Wherefore, brethren, we are not children of a handmaid, but Christ set us free with the freedom of the freewoman. Now he can go—as Christ’s freedman—with a spring—to better things to come. Luther’s first great treatise was Concerning Christian Liberty. In the quotation above, Boice used the term "legalism" as it is commonly used to describe both legalism and nomism. We will look at it from three points of view. But let the reader, at the same time, remember, that such liberty is only a part of that which Christ has procured for us: for how small a matter would it be, if he had only freed us from ceremonies? If mg. gives the correct text, it is probably a gloss. S. P.]. To say that the former code is done away and all its commandments is no contradiction. xviii. We are children of the free woman-beyond doubt it is; for liberty Christ did free us:5:13; John 8:36. Christian liberty stands--. The Jews were under bondage to the ceremonial law, involving great trouble, pain in the flesh, and great expense. John Eadie's Commentary on Galatians, Ephesians, Philippians and Colossians. Whosoever he be, Judaist or Papist, priest, or king, or demagogue-that makes himself lord of God’s heritage and would despoil His children of the liberties of faith, let him beware lest of him also it be spoken, "Cast out the bondwoman and her son.". They were ambitious of Jewish privileges. For the honest meaning of the word of God anything and everything has been substituted that lawless fancy and verbal ingenuity could read into it. (C. H. Disobedience involves us in many entanglements. O, think of your folly and your wickedness! 3. III. II. The worth of our Christian liberty cannot be exaggerated. Stand ... therefore ... Paul, by this admonished the Galatians to hold their ground, resist the Judaizers and reject the persuasions of those who would entangle them in such things as sabbath days, feast days, circumcision and all other Jewish regulations. 944, πρὸς οἷα δουλείας ζυγὰ χωροῦμεν). When they come, they will bring their own escapes and their own balances. Johann Albrecht Bengel's Gnomon of the New Testament. The Law was a yoke of burdensome weight (Galatians 5:1) - Grace is to be in the yoke with JESUS, which makes the yoke easy and the burden light (Matthew 11:29-30). It is, of course, not carnal but spiritual freedom, freedom from the curse and bondage of the law, secured to the believer as a permanent condition by the vicarious death of Christ, which satisfied the demands of Divine justice and saved us from wrath. It relies on outward means for the propagation of its faith; and naturally resorts to the secular arm. But Christian liberty should be valued as the choicest privilege, remembering it was purchased by the suffering Christ, and that it has been defended through the ages by a noble army of martyrs. as a Church lesson by itself apart from the preceding allegory. Others, following the Westminster Confession, regard Sunday worship as a continuation of Sabbath worship. It is without any connecting particle, Galatians 3:13 : τῇ ἐλευθερίᾳ, [by virtue of the] liberty, is emphatically put without ἐν, in: liberty itself confers the power of standing. Jesus Christ by His obedience and death has purchased freedom and liberty to His Church—liberty not to do evil, nor from the yoke of new obedience, nor from the cross, nor from that obedience and reverence which inferiors owe to superiors; but from the dominion of sin, the tyranny of Satan, the curse and irritating power of the law, and from subjecting our consciences to the rites, doctrines, ceremonies, and laws of men in the matter of worship. The Law of Moses could never set you free from that penalty [Galatians 3:21]. Like oxen that toil in the yoke all day, and in the evening are turned out to graze along the dusty road, and at last are marked for slaughter when they no longer can draw the burden, so those who seek to be justified by the Law are "entangled with the yoke of bondage," and when they have grown old and broken-down in the service of the Law they have earned for their perpetual reward God's wrath and everlasting torment. If mg. gives the correct text, it is probably a gloss. Ishmael was the first to be circumcised. *) free-born Isaac, and the son of the slave was righteously cast out. "Before plunging into this third section of his letter, Paul interjects a verse that is at once a summary of all that has gone before and a transition to what follows. (Winer, p. 434 [E. T. 584]) of “cognate” nouns in the dative. The Arabs, the fiery sons of the desert, through him claim descent from Abraham. But as there is a true and righteous liberty, so there is a false and degrading one. Above all, they were, notwithstanding their professed law-keeping, enslaved to sin, in servitude to their pride and evil lusts. The moral situation created by the Judaic controversy had been rehearsed in the family life of Abraham. Then ᾗ is omitted in A, B, C, D1, א; but it ( τῇ ἐλευθερίᾳ ᾗ) is found in D3, E, K, L, in the majority of cursives, and in the most of the Greek fathers, and is adopted by Tischendorf, Scholz, Rinck, Reiche, Ellicott; while the reading ᾗ ἐλευθερίᾳ is found in F, G,-the Claromontane Latin and Vulgate reading also quâ libertate, followed by the Gothic, Victorinus, Augustine, and Jerome. See Kypke in loc. Her sons chafed under the Roman yoke. The past—gone; the present—safety, peace, love; the future—sure! Take heed lest you grow unawares to think that only those within your own circle are brethren, and those who hold aloof are not; that those who do not think as you do, or that men like myself, who cannot always follow you, are outside the pale. The Church is the great witness to liberty in this world.—It was to set men free that her Master lived and died. "Schaff's Popular Commentary on the New Testament". In the case of a liberated bird or an emancipated slave it would be superfluous. "Well, let me be your slave, massa; you have redeemed me, and I owe all to you." Metaphorical, of a burden or bondage. Galatians 5:1-26. (1) Stand fast therefore.—The external evidence is very strong in favour of a different reading: With (or, perhaps, For) liberty did Christ make us free. By so taking it, and by attending to the emphasis, which lies not on χριστός, but on the τῇ ἐλευθερίᾳ following immediately after τῆς ἐλευθέρας in Galatians 4:31, we obviate entirely the objection of Rückert (comp. Thus, under one department is included the whole class; but on this subject we shall speak more fully on the Epistle to the Colossians. This Judaising temper displays itself whenever men try to narrow down eternal principles of conduct into minute rules, which can prefer no higher claim than to be deemed useful to some, whilst they may be positively injurious to others In vindicating the freedom brought to us by the gospel, we throw ourselves back on the primary truths of Christianity--the Fatherhood of God, and the reconciliation wrought out by the atoning work of Jesus Christ, the Incarnate Son of God. The Saviour’s love to the sinner draws the sinner’s love to Himself. When they are put to the test all their self-confidence slips from them. Have we not all felt the difference. ].” Thus, “being made free by Christ, we are made free indeed [Note: John 8:36.].”]. Soph. "John Wesley's Explanatory Notes on the Whole Bible". Genesis 9:3). Christ, the Son of God, became incarnated, suffered in a degree unparalleled and incomprehensible, and died the shameful and ignoble death of the crucified to win back the liberty man had forfeited by voluntary sin. 2. There is something in our very adhesiveness and pertinacity which represents the spirit of the gospel. Nay, they have chosen. ἐλ.) His Bible tells of human freedom from first to last; from God’s emancipation of Israel out of Egyptian bondage to the glory of that Jerusalem which is above, which is free. Robbed of all outward means, mocked and thrust out as she is by Israel after the flesh, her rejection is a release, an emancipation. Stand fast therefore in the liberty — From the ceremonial law. For, whatever the precise reading may be, the repetition of the catchword “freedom,” and of ἡμᾶς (which carries on the idea of τέκνα τ. How much more eagerly should we do homage and service to the divine Master, who Himself has made us free! The liberty wherewith Christ has made as free.—As Christ has given you this liberty you are bound to stand fast in it. (H. H. Ver. "George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary". 3. Paul"s mainly Gentile readers were in danger of returning to slavery, not to the slavery of their heathen sins as before but to the slavery of the Mosaic Law. Text Commentaries by David Guzik David Guzik is the pastor of Calvary Chapel Santa Barbara, California. He has been through, and opened the door the other side. BibliographyBarnes, Albert. I have observed this several times, and still wonder at how the person can do that, how they can understand the danger, the addiction, and the hurt of the habit, then to enjoy the freedom, the good health, and the added finance only to turn again to the dark days of being tied to a habit that leads only to the grave for so many. If the life is feeble, and tied down by inward restraints like those of superstition or of fear, the removal of outward restraints will not set it free. The persecution of the Church by Judaism gave proof of the Ishmaelite spirit, the carnal animus by which it was possessed. Paul may say "in Arabia" rather than in the Arabian language, because he is referring to a local usage. "Entangled" is just what it describes in our language and culture. And so man living under the Christian covenant stands in a direct personal relation to God, a relation of trust. It is a parenthesis-"for mount Sinai is in Arabia"-covenant running on in the mind from Galatians 4:24 as the continued subject of ver. But, if he finds the boy in his leisure moments reading about the sea, and haunting about the seashore, and studying intelligently the boats and sails and machinery, after a time he will begin to recognize in the boy such a bent as indicates a genuine call. 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