Galatians 2:5

"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,"

Key Reflection

The phrase highlights how false teachers infiltrated the early Christian community to undermine the freedom found in Christ. They sought to impose legalistic restrictions, thus threatening the believers' newfound liberation and faith in Jesus’ atonement.

From the Scholars: Barnes' Notes

Verse 5. To whom we gave place by subjection, no, not for an hour. We did not submit to this at all. We did not yield even for the shortest tune. We did not waver in our opposition to their demands, or in the slightest degree become subject to their wishes. We steadily opposed their claims, in order that the great principle might be for ever settled that the laws of Moses were not to be imposed as obligatory on the Gentile converts. This I take to be the clear and obvious sense of this passage, though there has been a great variety of opinions on it. A considerable number of Mss.

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