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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Commentary on the Epistle to the Galatians by Martin Luther: therefore has high praise for the Galatians because they over looked his
afflictions and received him like an angel. Christ forewarned the faithful
against the offense of the Cross, saying: "Blessed is he, whosoever shall not
be offended in me." (Matt. 11:6.) Surely it is no easy thing to confess Him
Lord of all and Savior of the world who was a reproach of men, and
despised of the people, and the laughing stock of the world. (Ps. 22:7.) I say,
to value this poor Christ, so spitefully scorned, spit upon, scourged, and
crucified, more than the riches of the richest, the strength of the strongest,
the wisdom of the wisest, is something. It is worth being called blessed.
Paul not only had outward afflictions but also inner, spiritual afflictions.
He refers to these in II Corinthians 7:6, "Without were fightings, within
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