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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Commentary on the Epistle to the Galatians by Martin Luther: from you ought not to change your attitude towards me. Although I am
absent in the flesh, I am with you in spirit and in my doctrine which you
ought to retain by all means because through it you received the Holy
Spirit."
VERSE 19. My little children, of whom I travail in birth again until
Christ be formed in you.
With every single word the Apostle seeks to regain the confidence of the
Galatians. He now calls them lovingly his little children. He adds the
simile: "Of whom I travail in birth again." As parents reproduce their
physical characteristics in their children, so the apostles reproduced their
faith in the hearts of the hearers, until Christ was formed in them. A
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