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7–12. Against continuing in retrogression; with sharp words against the leader and the false teachers generally
(Gal 5:7) You were running your race nobly; who hindered you, so that (to drop all metaphor) you should not obey truth? (Gal 5:8) This persuasion of yours is not from Him whose voice you once heard and can still hear. (Gal 5:9) Do not despise beginnings in evil. You know the proverb, A little leaven etc. (Gal 5:10) I, for my part, still have confidence in you in the Lord that you will not set your heart on any other than the one way and truth, but the leader of those who trouble you shall bear the burden of his judgment, whatever his present position. (Gal 5:11) I have spoken of myself, now I speak of myself again in contrast to him. I at any rate, my brothers, whatever may be said of me, am different from what I was before my conversion, and I have made no change since. The evidence that I do not now, as once, preach circumcision is that I am still persecuted. For the cross has not lost its effect of being a stumbling-block! (Gal 5:12) I wish that those who so upset you would, while they are about it, make themselves altogether eunuchs!