“Christ is become of no effect unto you, whosoever of you are justified by the law; ye are fallen from grace.”
You who are trying to be justified by the law have been alienated from Christ; you have fallen away from grace. — the consequence is eschatological: the law-seeker ('dikaiō en nomō') is 'katargeo' (made inactive, severed) from Christ and has 'ekpipto' (fallen out of, forfeited) grace itself, a tragic inversion of salvation status.
Church Fathers on Galatians 5:4
“You are severed from Christ, you who would be justified by the Law; you are fallen away from grace.” Having established his point, he at length declares their danger of the severest punishment. When a man recurs to the Law, which cannot save him, and falls from grace, what remains but an inexorable retribution, the Law being powerless, and grace rejecting him? Thus having aggravated their alarm, and disquieted their mind, and shown them all the shipwreck they were about to…
Nicene & Post-Nicene / Ante-Nicene Fathers translations · public domain
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