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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: endure. They said to Paul: "As concerning this sect, we know that
everywhere it is spoken against." (Acts 28:22.) No matter how barren and
forsaken, how weak and desolate the Church may seem, she alone is really
fruitful before God. By the Gospel she procreates an infinite number of
children that are free heirs of everlasting life.
The Law, "the old husband," is really dead. But not all people know it, or
want to know it. They labor and bear the burden and the heat of the day,
and bring forth many children, children that are bastards like themselves,
children born to be put out of the house like Ishmael to perish forever.
Accursed be that doctrine, life, and religion which endeavors to obtain
righteousness before God by the Law and its creeds.
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