Galatians 5:1 (WEB)
Stand firm therefore in the liberty by which Christ has made us free, and don’t be entangled again with a yoke of bondage.
Catechism · 2
Man's Freedom
“"For freedom Christ has set us free."” — Catechism footnote: Gal 5: 1.
The Moral Law
The New Law is called a law of love because it makes us act out of the love infused by the Holy Spirit, rather than from fear; a law of grace, because it confers the strength of grace to act, by means of faith and…
Fathers and councils · 6
Tertullian
“For the Jews say, that from the beginning God sanctified the seventh day, by resting on it from all His works which He made; and that thence it was, likewise, that Moses said to the People: “Remember the day of the sabbaths, to sanctify it: every servile work ye shall not do therein, except what pertaineth unto life.”” — editor's note: Comp. Gal. v. 1; iv. 8, 9.
Read the whole comment“…like the abstemious rigours which purify an Apis, an Isis, and a Magna Mater, by a restriction laid upon certain kinds of food; whereas faith, free in Christ, owes no abstinence from particular meats to the Jewish Law even, admitted as it has been by the apostle once for all to the whole range of the meat-market—(the…” — editor's note: Comp. Gal. v. 1.
Read the whole comment““Liberty in Christ” has done no injury to innocence.” — editor's note: See Gal. ii. 4; v. 1, 13.
Read the whole comment“When he speaks of “the liberty wherewith Christ hath made us free,” does not the very phrase indicate that He is the Liberator who was once the Master?” — editor's note: Gal. v. 1.
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Gregory of Nyssa
- Gregory of Nyssa, On Virginity On Virginity.18On Virginity
“But this liberty consists, as we learn from the Apostle, in not again being held in the yoke of slavery, and in not being bound again, like a runaway or a criminal, with the fetters of marriage.” — editor's note: Gal. v. 1.
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Clement of Alexandria
“Wherefore the noble apostle calls one of the kinds of fornication, idolatry, in following the prophet, who says: “[My people] hath committed fornication with stock and stone.” — editor's note: In close conjunction with idolatry, fornication is mentioned, Col. iii. 5, Gal. v. 20, 1 Pet. iv. 3.
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Cross-references · 13
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Cited together in Catechism §1741.
Cited together in On Virginity On Virginity.18.
Cited together in On Virginity On Virginity.18.
