John of Damascus, on Gal 2:17

“But if while we seek to be justified in Christ, we ourselves also are found sinners; is Christ then the minister of sin? God forbid.”

“Look at the absurd direction into which he leads those who are attached to the Law. If the faith in Christ, he says, is not sufficient to justify, but, once again there is a need to uphold the Law, and if those, having left the Law for Christ, are not justified in doing so, but rather are condemned, then Christ will be found to be the cause of our condemnation, since we left the law on his account in order to run towards the faith. "God forbid," he says. Seeing the absurdity, which this doctrine leads to, he immediately turns away from it by using this aphorism.”

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