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Augustine of Hippo

Nicene & Post-Nicene · AD 325–500

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On Galatians

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  1. Galatians 6:1
    One is overtaken on those occasions either when one sins without seeing at the time that it is a sin or when one sees this and is still overcome. One sins either in ignorance of truth or under the limitations of infirmity.

    Against Lying 22

  2. Galatians 6:1
    There is no surer test of the spiritual person than his treatment of another’s sin. Note how he takes care to deliver the sinner rather than triumph over him, to help him rather than punish him and, so far as lies in his capacity, to support him.

    EPISTLE TO THE GALATIANS 56 [1B.6.1]

  3. Galatians 6:2
    The “law of Christ” means the law of love. The one who loves his neighbor fulfills the law. The love of neighbor is strongly commended even in the Old Testament. The apostle elsewhere says that it is by love that all the commands of the law are summed up. If so, then it is evident that even that Scripture which was given to the covenant people was the law of Christ, which, since it was not being fulfilled by fear, he came to fulfill by love. The same Scripture, therefore, and the same law is called the old covenant when it weighs down in slavery those who are grasping after earthly goods. It is called the new testament when it raises to freedom those who are ardently seeking the eternal good.

    EPISTLE TO THE GALATIANS 58 [1B.6.2]

  4. Galatians 6:8
    To sow in the spirit is to serve righteousness from faith and with love and not to heed the desires of sin, even though they arise from mortal flesh.… When we are under grace, we sow in tears, when desires arise from our animal body, which we resist by not consenting, so that we may reap in joy. We reap when, by the reformation of our body, no vexation or peril of temptation comes to trouble us from any physical source.

    EPISTLE TO THE GALATIANS 61 [1B.6.7-10]

  5. Galatians 6:12
    The Jews were inflicting great persecution on those who seemed to be deserting their traditional observances such as circumcision. Paul’s lack of fear has been demonstrated through his composing such a letter in his own handwriting. In this way he shows that those who force the Gentiles into circumcision are operating under fear’s control, as though they were subject to the law.

    EPISTLE TO THE GALATIANS 62 [1B.6.11-14]

  6. Galatians 6:13
    Not only did [the Judaizers] wish to avoid persecution from the Jews, who were absolutely unwilling to let the law be given to the uncircumcised, but they desired to boast to the Jews about the number of proselytes they made.

    EPISTLE TO THE GALATIANS 62 [1B.6.11-14]

  7. Galatians 6:16
    Paul means those who are truly prepared for the vision of God. These are distinguished from those who are called by this name [Israel] and in their carnal blindness refuse to see the Lord, spurning his grace, still desiring to be enslaved by temporal things.

    EPISTLE TO THE GALATIANS 63 [1B.6.15-16]

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