Paul urged the Galatians to create a legal system that united people rather than dividing them into classes and gave equal value to everybody without exception. “The whole law is summed up in a single commandment: love your neighbor as yourself,” he urged them.19 They must transcend the reptilian passions that divided them: “envy, fits of rage, selfish ambitions, dissensions, party intrigues, and jealousies.”20 The law of self-emptying love was “the law of Christ.”
