Perhaps partly as a response to the Judaizers’ charges that he was a libertine, and as a warning to believers who were tempted to abuse their Christian liberty, Paul makes clear that the freedom of the gospel is not tolerance of self-indulgence. It is not a means for satisfying the desires of the flesh but for opposing them. Aphormē (opportunity) was often used to indicate a central base from which all operations of a military campaign originated. In this context flesh does not refer to the physical