Jesus had tried to make God’s Kingdom a reality by establishing mutually supportive communities that had made themselves mentally, spiritually, and, to an extent, economically independent of Roman imperium; so too 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
