5:9
It might be thought that a little wrong teaching does not matter, but in some cases what starts off as a seemingly small error starts to infect everything and causes major problems. Of course, we can can go to the other extreme and start pouncing on every little point of disagreement as a major doctrinal error. We need to recognise what matters and what doesn’t.
5:10
Paul has been very forthright in what he has been saying, even so he expects, or at least hopes, that the Galatians will realise the truth of what he has been saying. It appears that there was one person who was the source of all the trouble, though Paul, apparently does not know who that person was. Paul is clear that whoever they are, they will have to pay the penalty. It is not clear whether he is thinking of a church imposed discipline, or judgement from God. Whatever the case, the key point is that God is no respecter of persons. So they do not need to fear if the trouble maker is an apparently “important” person. This may be part of the reason why back in the first two chapters Paul went on about not caring about whether or not someone was “important”, it was the truth of the gospel that mattered.
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