Purpose of Christian Freedom: Slavery to One Another

Reading in Galatians 5.13 this morning. Paul instructs the Galatians that they were called to freedom, but lest they assume he means autonomous freedom, he carefully explains. Christian freedom is a freedom that serves each other in love. The word serve might be better translated "is enslaved to" one another in love. Chrysostom thinks that Paul used the word to forcefully make his point:

He did not say “love one another” but “be slaves to one another,” to express the most intense possible love.