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Saint Paul Writing His Epistles, Valentin de Boulogne

Galatians 5:1

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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

  • §1741Article 3 · Man's FreedomRead at vatican.va

    “"For freedom Christ has set us free."” — Catechism footnote: Gal 5: 1.

The Moral Law

  • §1972Article 1 · The Moral LawRead at vatican.va

    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.

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  • “…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.

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

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  • “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

Clement of Alexandria

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