“But if ye bite and devour one another, take heed that ye be not consumed one of another.”
If you keep on biting and devouring each other, watch out or you will be destroyed by each other. — Paul's metaphorical warning: if the Galatians bite and devour ('dakno' and 'esō' — eat) one another (likely in doctrinal dispute), they will 'analisko' (be consumed, destroyed) by mutual destruction, a cautionary image of communal self-destruction.
Church Fathers on Galatians 5:15
“But if you bite and devour one another, take heed that you be not consumed one of another.” That he may not distress them, he does not assert this, though he knew it was the case, but mentions it ambiguously. For he does not say, “Inasmuch as you bite one another,” nor again does he assert, in the clause following, that they shall be consumed by each other; but “take heed that you be not consumed one of another,” and this is the language of apprehension and warning, not of…
Nicene & Post-Nicene / Ante-Nicene Fathers translations · public domain
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