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1richard N. Longenecker, Vol. 41, Word Biblical Commentary: Galatians, Word Biblical Commentary (Dallas: Word, Incorporated, 2002), 225

Paul argues that Christ has freed believers from slavery to the law. He urges believers to stand firm in their freedom and not submit again to a yoke of slavery, as the Judaizers were advocating. The verse succinctly expresses both God's act of freeing believers through Christ and the imperative response of maintaining that freedom.

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1richard N. Longenecker, Vol. 41, Word Biblical Commentary: Galatians, Word Biblical Commentary (Dallas: Word, Incorporated, 2002), 225

Paul argues that Christ has freed believers from slavery to the law. He urges believers to stand firm in their freedom and not submit again to a yoke of slavery, as the Judaizers were advocating. The verse succinctly expresses both God's act of freeing believers through Christ and the imperative response of maintaining that freedom.

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Summarizing, therefore, all that he has argued and exhorted from 1:6 through 4:31, Paul sets

forth in 5:1 the essence of the Christian proclamation and a believers response vis--vis the
Judaizers message: For freedom Christ set us free! Stand fast, therefore, and do not let
yourselves be burdened again by a yoke of slavery. As Betz aptly expresses it: The whole
sentence states in a very concise form both the indicative and the imperative of Christian
salvation in the Pauline sense (Galatians, 256).1

1Richard N. Longenecker, vol. 41, Word Biblical Commentary : Galatians, Word


Biblical Commentary (Dallas: Word, Incorporated, 2002), 225.

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