order) “freedom,” “you,” “Christ,” and “set free.” The first and last, the two places of a Greek sentence where emphasis can be found, are concerned with freedom—one a noun and the other a verb. The verb is in the aorist tense, which tells us not when or how they were set free, but that they were set free. His main focus is with the fact of their being free at last. Everything we understand in this passage, and ultimately everything we “take home” from Galatians, hinges on our ability to perceive