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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: passed through many dangers of body and life. You endured much for the name
of Christ and you endured it faithfully. But now you have lost everything,
the Gospel, faith, and the spiritual benefit of your sufferings for Christ's
sake. What a miserable thing to endure so many amictions for nothing."
VERSE 4. If it be yet in vain.
The Apostle adds the afterthought: "If it be yet in vain. I do not despair of
all hope for you. But if you continue to look to the Law for righteousness, I
think you should be told that all your past true worship of God and all the
afflictions that you have endured for Christ's sake are going to help you not
at all. I do not mean to discourage you altogether. I do hope you will repent
and amend."
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