“For ye are all the children of God by faith in Christ Jesus.”
You are all children of God through faith in Christ Jesus, — the identity-shift is radical: through faith in Christ ('dia tēs pisteos en Christō'), believers become 'teknon' (children) of God, a status transcending ethnic categories and law-observance, rooted in mystical incorporation into Christ.
Church Fathers on Galatians 3:26
“But now that faith has come which leads to perfect manhood we are no longer under a tutor. For you are all sons of God through faith in Christ Jesus.” The Law then, as it was our tutor, and we were kept shut up under it, is not the adversary but the fellow-worker of grace; but if when grace has come, it continues to hold us down, it becomes an adversary; for if it confines those who ought to go forward to grace, then it is the destruction of our salvation. If a candle which…
Nicene & Post-Nicene / Ante-Nicene Fathers translations · public domain
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