Meekness, temperance: against such there is no law.
23. Against such there is no law. Some understand these words as meaning simply that the law is not directed against good works, “from evil manners have sprung good laws.” But Paul’s real meaning is deeper and less obvious; namely, that, where the Spirit reigns, the law has no longer any dominion.
Christ has freed you from the curse of the law, but not from the obligation of it. Do not seize your Christian liberty as a license for the flesh and quarrels with your brothers; rather, serve one another in love, maintaining that mutual affection which binds you together despite your differences.
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Commenting on Galatians 5:13-26
And they that are Christ's,.... Not all as yet that are secretly so, who are chosen in him, and by him, are given by the Father to him in covenant, and whom he has purchased by his blood, and considers as his people, his sheep, and his children, though as yet they are not called by his grace; of these, as yet, what follows cannot...