“For if I build again the things which I destroyed, I make myself a transgressor.”
Rather, I am a lawbreaker if I rebuild what I destroyed. — the metaphor of rebuilding what one demolished illustrates the contradiction: to return to Torah-righteousness after recognizing Christ's sufficiency would be to revert to a false path already destroyed by revelation.
Church Fathers on Galatians 2:18
“For if I build up again those things which I destroyed, I prove myself a transgressor.” Observe the Apostle's discernment; his opponents endeavored to show, that he who kept not the Law was a transgressor, but he retorts the argument upon them, and shows that he who did keep the Law was a transgressor, not merely of faith, but of the Law itself. “I build up again the things which I destroyed,” that is, the Law; he means as follows: the Law has confessedly ceased, and we…
Nicene & Post-Nicene / Ante-Nicene Fathers translations · public domain
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