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Gal 5:6. Ἰσχύει) prevails, avails. The same word occurs, Mat 5:13; Jam 5:16.-οὔτε ἀκροβυστία, nor uncircumcision) This refers to those who, if they regard themselves as free from the law, think that they are Christians on that account alone.-πίστις διʼ ἀγάπης ἐνεργουμένη, faith working by love) This is the new creature; Gal 6:15. He joined hope with faith; now he joins with it love. In these the whole of Christianity [the being in Christ] consists; ἐνεργουμένη is not passive, but middle, 1Th 2:13; nor does Paul put love as a form of faith, but shows that, along with faith, nothing else than love remains, Gal 5:13-14; in which very truth, however, he teaches the same thing as Jam 2:22. Faith is recommended to those who defend circumcision; love, to those who think that uncircumcision is [avails] something, [that they may be reminded that the law is not set aside by faith, but confirmed.-V. g.] Love is opposed to the enmities which prevailed so virulently among the Galatians: Gal 5:13; Gal 5:15; Gal 5:20; Gal 5:26. Those seeking justification by works are at a very great distance from love. The Spirit is a Spirit of faith and love.-V. g.]