Summarizing, therefore, all that he has argued and exhorted from 1:6 through 4:31, Paul sets forth in 5:1 the essence of the Christian proclamation and a believers response vis--vis the Judaizers message: For freedom Christ set us free! Stand fast, therefore, and do not let yourselves be burdened again by a yoke of slavery. As Betz aptly expresses it: The whole sentence states in a very concise form both the indicative and the imperative of Christian salvation in the Pauline sense (Galatians, 256).[footnoteRef:2] [2: Richard N. Longenecker, vol. 41, Word Biblical Commentary : Galatians, Word Biblical Commentary (Dallas: Word, Incorporated, 2002), 225.]