But if I, brothers, still preach circumcision, why am I still being persecuted? In that case the offense of the cross has been removed.
11. And I, brethren. This argument, is drawn from the final cause. “It would be completely in my power,” he says, “to avoid the displeasure of men, and every kind of danger and persecution, were I only to mix ceremonies with Christ. The earnestness with which I oppose them is not on my own account, nor for my own advantage.” But does it therefore follow that his doctrine is true?
Christ has freed us from the yoke of the ceremonial law and from the curse of the moral law alike. Stand fast in this liberty and do not suffer yourselves to be entangled again in bondage, no matter what pressure the Judaizers apply.
AI summary
Commenting on Galatians 5:1-12
I would they were even cut off which trouble you. These words are a solemn wish of the apostle's with respect to the false teachers, or an imprecation of the judgment of God upon them; that they might be cut off out of the land of the living by the immediate hand of God, that they might do no more mischief to the churches of...