1. The phrase “works of the law” has an antithesis when it comes to righteousness—faith. What keeping the Law could not do, the gift of faith does.
  2. Jesus speaks His Word, and a new world order emerges, with the possibility of uniting disparate parties in the true faith.
  3. The Word and the Spirit go together. The Spirit, the breath of God, illumines and makes alive through the Word of God; both written and external, that is, preached and sacramented.
  4. Paul is talking about military-level allegiance here, the strongest kind of allegiance sworn to a king.
  5. By making a big deal of every baptism, of every confirmation, of every rite of matrimony, the Church takes a stand against the intrusion of consumerism, secularism, identity politics, subversive subcultures, gender dysphoria, and the like.

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