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Saint Paul Writing His Epistles, Valentin de Boulogne

Galatians 2:4

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Galatians 2:4 (WEB)

This was because of the false brothers secretly brought in, who stole in to spy out our liberty which we have in Christ Jesus, that they might bring us into bondage,

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Hippolytus of Rome

Augustine of Hippo

Tertullian

  • ““Liberty in Christ” has done no injury to innocence.” — editor's note: See Gal. ii. 4; v. 1, 13.

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  • “When, again, he mentioned “certain false brethren as having crept in unawares,” who wished to remove the Galatians into another gospel, he himself shows that that adulteration of the gospel was not meant to transfer them to the faith of another god and christ, but rather to perpetuate the…” — editor's note: See Gal. i. 6, 7, and ii. 4.

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  • “When indeed he says, that “neither was Titus circumcised,” he for the first time shows us that circumcision was the only question connected with the maintenance of the law, which had been as yet agitated by those whom he therefore calls “false brethren unawares brought in.”” — editor's note: Gal. ii. 4.

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