To them that are without law] i.e. Gentiles: cp. Romans 2:12. To them he became as without law e.g. refusing to have Titus, a Gentile, circumcised (Galatians 2:3); mixing freely with Gentiles; using arguments from natural religion and from Greek literature and philosophy, as at Lystra (Acts 14:15) and Athens (Acts 17:22). Being not without law to God] Liberty did not mean licence; though free from bondage to the Law of Moses, he yielded obedience to the moral law of God as revealed in Christ.

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