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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: Christian. Inwardly it consists in faith towards God, outwardly in love
towards our fellow-men.
VERSE 7. Ye did run well; who did hinder you that ye should not obey
the truth?
This is plain speaking. Paul asserts that he teaches the same truth now
which he has always taught, and that the Galatians ran well as long as they
obeyed the truth. But now, misled by the false apostles, they no longer run.
He compares the Christian life to a race. When everything runs along
smoothly the Hebrews spoke of it as a race. "Ye did run well," means that
everything went along smoothly and happily with the Galatians. They
lived a Christian life and were on the right way to everlasting life. The
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