Shane Williamson’s Reviews > Galatians Through the Centuries > Status Update

"Faith must work through love"...The Abrahamic family may be free from the yoke of the Law, but "they are not free from the obligation to work." (Barclay 1988:94)

He [Paul] presents Christian life as flowing organically from participation in the Spirit, the believers' union with Christ: Christians are led by the Spirit and so bear the fruit of the Spirit. (Riches, 246)

In Christ ye are all sons, all free. Every barrier is swept away. No special claims. no special disabilities exist in Him, none can exist. The conventional distinctions of religious caste or of social rank, even the natural distinction of sex, are banished hence. One heart beats in all: one mind guides all: one life is lived by all. You are all one man, for ye are members of Christ.

— Lightfoot (1865:146)

When Paul says that the law was added for the sake of transgressions, he means probably 'in order to provide a way of dealing with, in order to provide some sort of remedy for transgressions.' What was in view...[was] the sacrificial system, whereby transgressions could be dealt with, whereby atonement was provided.
— James Dunn (1993: 189-190)