This persuasion is not from him who calls you.
8. This persuasion cometh not. Having formerly combated them by arguments, he at length pronounces, with a voice of authority, that their persuasion came not from God. Such an admonition would not be entitled to much regard, were it not supported by the authority of the speaker.
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
This persuasion cometh not of him that calleth you. That is, the opinion they were persuaded to believe; and which the Syriac version renders, "your persuasion"; this is not of God, who had called them into the grace of Christ; nor of Christ, who had called them to the knowledge of himself, and communion with him; nor of the Spirit of Christ, who had called...