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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Commentary on the Epistle to the Galatians by Martin Luther: This concludes Paul's discourse on justification. From now to the end of the
Epistle the Apostle writes mostly of Christian conduct. But before he follows
up his doctrinal discourse with practical precepts he once more reproves the
Galatians. He is deeply displeased with them for relinquishing their divine
doctrine. He tells them: "You have taken on teachers who intend to recommit
you to the Law. By my doctrine I called you out of the darkness of ignorance
into the wonderful light of the knowledge of God. I led you out of bondage into
the freedom of the sons of God, not by the prescription of laws, but by the
gift of heavenly and eternal blessings through Christ Jesus. How could you so
soon forsake the light and return to darkness? How could you so quickly stray
from grace into the Law, from freedom into bondage?"
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