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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: constrain you to be circumcised; only lest they should suffer
persecution for the cross of Christ.
Paul once more scores the false apostles in an effort to draw the Galatians
away from their false doctrine. "The teachers you have now do not seek the
glory of Christ and the salvation of your souls, but only their own glory.
They avoid the Cross. They do not understand what they teach."
These three counts against the false apostles are of so serious a nature that
no Christian could have fellowship with them. But not all the Galatians
obeyed the warning of Paul.
The Apostle's attack upon the false apostles was not unjustified. Neither
are our attacks upon the papacy. When we call the Pope the Antichrist and
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