The Paul who combated the legalists in Galatia, like the Jesus who combated the scribes and Pharisees, was contending for a God of grace.
Any denial of that conception would certainly have called forth anathemas at least as severe as those which were hurled against thelegalists in Galatia.
Bondmen they will be again, if they are beguiled by the Legalists to accept the yoke of circumcision, if they take "the Jerusalem that now is" for their mother.
Had their eyes continued to be fixed on Calvary, the Legalists would have argued and cajoled in vain.
The Apostle's controversy with the Legalists is all but concluded.
Paul and the Legalists agreed in designating righteousness before God man's chief good.
The Legalists persuaded them that they must be circumcised and conform to Moses, in order to be Abraham's children in full title.
At Antioch the new campaign of the Legalists was opened, and apparently with signal success.
The aim of the Legalists was to get so many Gentiles circumcised, to win proselytes through Christianity to Judaism.
The new Legalists sought, in fact, to superimpose Jewish on Gentile Christianity.
Who then are the truest friends of law--Legalists or Paulinists, moralists or evangelicals?
What Paul's opponents sought to do by means of circumcision and Jewish prerogatives, that the Catholic legalists have done, on a larger scale, through the claims of the priesthood and the sacramental offices.
The Legalists imputed to him the very last thing of which he was capable.
The Legalists minimised, they practically ignored the significance of Calvary.
Had they not the wit to see that the teaching of the Legalists ran counter to all they had then experienced, that it "made the death of Christ of none effect," which had so mighty and saving an effect upon themselves?
The Legaliststaught that the ruler must do as little as possible himself.
In the time of the Legalists the first steps had been taken in the codification of the criminal law.
It is more probable that these legalists came into the Church during the period of prosperity which followed upon the persecution of Stephen and was only briefly interrupted by the persecution under Herod Agrippa I.
Unless it could be kept out, the legalists would have some apparent show of reason on their side.
Then the legalists of Rome had brought to this the further consideration that mere expedience, universal indeed, but of no moral sanction, had dictated its institution as the only way to avoid continual strife among neighbours.
Even some professional teachers of duty are mere legalists who do not succeed in reducing the law which they teach to any rational unity.
On the other hand, some of Mrs. Hutchinson's friends scornfully referred to the orthodox party as legalists and antichrists, "who walked in a covenant of works.
Amid great excitement the legalists carried a resolution to hold the May election at Newtown (Cambridge) instead of Boston, a partisan move, for Newtown was more subject to their influence than Boston.
Secure in the possession of power, the legalists now proceeded to suppress the opposing party altogether.
The legalists were in a majority in the general court, and they resolved to retaliate for the treatment Mr. Wilson had received at the hands of his congregation.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "legalists" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
