Summarizing, therefore, all that he has argued and exhorted from 1:6 through 4:31, forth in 5:1 the essence of the Christian proclamation and a belieer!s response i $udaizers! message: %&or freedom Christ set us free' Stand fast, therefore, and do (ourseles be burdened again b( a (o)e of slaer(*+ s -etz aptl( expresses it: %.h sentence states in a er( concise form both the 0indicatie! and the 0imperatie! o salation in the Pauline sense+ Galatians , 256 * 1 1Richard N. Longenecker, vol. 41, Word Biblical Commentary : Galatians, Word Biblical Commentary (Dallas Word, !ncor"orated, #$$#%, ##&.
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).[footnoteRef:2] [2: Richard N. Longenecker, vol. 41, Word
Biblical Commentary : Galatians, Word Biblical Commentary (Dallas:
Word, Incorporated, 2002), 225.]
