Charles Spurgeon Commentary Galatians 5:12

"I would that they that unsettle you would even go beyond circumcision." — Galatians 5:12 (ASV)

Excommunicated, and put out of the church; indeed, it would be better if they were even dead, rather than that they should live to spread such evil even in a Christian church. Sometimes, when we think of the interests of immortal souls, we are apt to grow indignant, and rightly so, towards willfully false teachers.