For we through the Spirit wait for the hope of righteousness by faith.
5. For we through the Spirit. He now anticipates an objection that, might readily occur. “Will circumcision then be of no use?” In Jesus Christ, he replies, it availeth nothing. Righteousness, therefore, depends on faith, and is obtained, through the Spirit, without ceremonies.
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
For we through the Spirit wait,.... Who have believed in Christ, Christians in general, and the apostle and the brethren with him in particular; who also were Jews born, and brought up as such; and yet they did not look for, and expect heaven and happiness through circumcision, or any of the works of the law, but through the righteousness of Christ received by faith...