Bible Commentaries
Abbott's Illustrated New Testament
Galatians 5
Be not entangled again; do not return again to the bondage of Jewish rites from which you have been delivered.
If ye be circumcised; if you seek salvation through this rite, and rely upon it as the ground of acceptance with God.
He is a debtor, &c.; that is, if he depends upon the law for justification, he must obey it in full.
A little leaven, &c.; that is, the error had arisen from the influence of a small number, though it had spread extensively among them.
It would seem from this passage that Paul had himself been charged with adhering to the necessity of circumcision.--Persecution; that is, from the Jews.--Is the offence--ceased; it would cease.
Ye shall not fulfil; ye will not fulfil.
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