Standing Fast

State et nolite iterum jugo servitutis contineri. Et ex hoc ostenditur, quia non stet qui jugo inhaereat servitutis. Et quia is qui a Christo liberatate donatus est, tamdiu fuerit sub jugo, quamdiu spiritum servitutis habuerit in timore, et Legis initia sit secutus. Quod autem ait, state, firmam et stabilem in Christo hortatur fidem, ut Ecclesiae Galatiae fixo in Salvatore permaneant pede. De quo et in alio loco justus loquitur: Statuit super petram pedes meos, pro eo quod est, super Christum: ne scilicet circumferantur omni vento doctrinae, et in diversa rapiantur. Unde et ad stantes dicitur: Et qui stat, videat ne cadat. Et in alio loco: State, viriliter agite, confortamini, ut stent cum eo, quem Stephanus a dextris Patris stantem vidit in martytio perseverans. Sanctus Hieronymus, Commentariorum in Epistolam ad Galatas, Liber III, Cap V

Stand fast and refuse to be placed again under the yoke of servitude 1 And from this it is shown that he does not stand fast who adheres to the yoke of servitude. And even this man who was gifted liberty by Christ, for as long as he was beneath the yoke, so long he had the spirit of slavery in fear, and the beginning of the law he followed. And so he says, stand fast, exhorting firm and stable faith in Christ, that the church of the Galatians remain with fixed foot with the Saviour. Concerning which in another place it is said: He stood my feet upon the rock. 2 that is, upon Christ, lest they be blown away by every wind of doctrine and seized in diverse ways. 3 Whence to those who stand fast he says, 'And he who stands, let him look, so that he does not fall.' 4 And in another place, 'Stand, act manfully, be strong,' 5 that they stand with Him who Stephen saw standing at the right hand of the Father while he persevered in martyrdom. 6 Saint Jerome, Commentary on the Letter to the Galatians, Book 3, Chap 5 1 Gal 5.1 2 Ps 39.3 3 Eph 4. 14 4 1 Cor 10.12 5 1 Cor 16.13 6 Acts 2