price' (Strong's no.3724). If you said no, that a guilty murderer should not go free, then you just agreed to God's Law. Another question: did Christ fulfil on the cross The Law dealing with the sin of murder? No, and murder is still punishable by execution in several States. Now you know where that Law originated. A couple verses back in...

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... Lets us know that the death penalty is a 'statute of judgment', not an 'ordinance', such as circumcision.

 

Gal 4:10   Ye observe days, and months, and times, and years.

     Christ became our 'Sabbath', our 'Rest' (Heb.4). He also became our Passover sacrificed for us

Just as flesh circumcision is a healthy practice, if you want to do that for health reasons, great! But don't make a religion out of it. That's all Paul is saying. If you want to hold to a Saturday Church service instead of Sunday, fine. But don't make a religion out of it. Likewise, to slaughter a lamb for dinner is OK; but don't make a religion out of it, trying to bring back ritual sacrifice! "If you step on a crack, you break your grandmother's...", or "hold up your feet when you go over a railroad track", so goes old sayings by children. Get rid of all those silly hang-ups which will keep you in bondage and not in freedom to Christ.

 

Gal 4:11   I am afraid of you, lest I have bestowed upon you labour in vain.
12    Brethren, I beseech you, be as I am; for I am as ye are: ye have not injured me at all.
13    Ye know how through infirmity of the flesh I preached the gospel unto you at the first.
14    And my temptation which was in my flesh ye despised not, nor rejected; but received me as an angel of God, even as Christ Jesus.

     Paul is saying he's afraid 'for' them, lest they forget The Gospel of Christ once preached to them, which is freedom, not bondage. Paul's speaking especially to his brethren the Jews, with 'be as I am'. Paul being born a Benjamite, was strict in The Law also, as they. But being in Christ now means forgiveness when we sin against God's Law. Not a license to sin, but redemption because we can't be perfect in It.
     if these Jews had understood Paul's Message here, then they wouldn't have been trying to pressure the Gentiles into being justified by The Law instead of Christ. We know they were failing in being perfect to God's Law, so maybe they wanted company in bondage?

 

Gal 4:15   Where is then the blessedness ye spake of? for I bear you record, that, if it had been possible, ye would have plucked out your own eyes, and have given them to me.

     Paul's asking them where the receiving of the Gospel of Christ in happiness and joy was, which they so gladly received at the beginning. He's letting them know that he remembers that first preaching, so how could they let themselves be so misled from That Beautiful Gospel?
     Isn't that how the flesh gets misled so easily, that is to say, through appearances? How many times have we accepted what someone with a bunch of worldly credentials taught or said, or one backed by some big world organization, wearing nice clothes, driving up in a fancy car, etc.? But the old farmer back in the hills, the deceived ones think is dumber than a rock. If the sight of wealth and smell of money stirs their respect, then they've got problems that'll tear them away from Christ.

 

Gal 4:16   Am I therefore become your enemy, because I tell you the truth?
17    They zealously affect you, but not well; yea, they would exclude you, that ye might affect them.
18   But it is good to be zealously affected always in a good thing, and not only when I am present with you.