persecutes the Gospel and would if it could nail again Christ, the Son of God,
to the Cross although He gave Himself into death for the sins of the world.
The world dwells in darkness. The world is darkness.

Paul accentuates the point that the Galatians had been called by Christ unto
grace. "I taught you the doctrine of grace and of liberty from the Law, from
sin and wrath, that you should be free in Christ, and not slaves to the hard
laws of Moses. Will you allow yourselves to be carried away so easily from
the living fountain of grace and life?"


VERSE 6. Unto another gospel.

Note the resourcefulness of the devil. Heretics do not advertise their errors.
Murderers, adulterers, thieves disguise themselves. So the devil masquerades
all his devices and activities. He puts on white to make himself look like an
angel of light. He is astoundingly clever to sell his patent poison for the
Gospel of Christ. Knowing Satan's guile, Paul sardonically calls the doctrine
of the false apostles "another gospel," as if he would say, "You Galatians
have now another gospel, while my Gospel is no longer esteemed by you."

We infer from this that the false apostles had depreciated the Gospel of Paul
among the Galatians on the plea that it was incomplete. Their objection to
Paul's Gospel is identical to that recorded in the fifteenth chapter of the
Book of Acts to the effect that it was not enough for the Galatians to believe
in Christ, or to be baptized, but that it was needful to circumcise them, and
to command them to keep the law of Moses, for "except ye be circumcised after
the manner of Moses, ye cannot be saved." As though Christ were a workman
who had begun a building and left it for Moses to finish.