way and that way and, before he realizes what is happening, the halo has turned into what Paul called “the yoke of bondage” (Gal. 5:1). The yoke was a very familiar farm implement in those days, put on an animal to pull the plow or to join two oxen together. But the word was used in another way, and this is the meaning Paul had in mind. In the Old Testament the yoke was a symbol of the despotic authority laid on the necks of a conquered people as a symbol of their enslavement. It was something humiliating