From Strangers and Neighbors: What I Have Learned About Christianity by Living Among Orthodox Jews, by Maria Poggi Johnson:

But what Christians, even those who ought to know better, have too often forgotten is that when Paul said these things, he wasn't writing to Jews or about Jews. He was writing to and about Gentile Christians who had been argued or bullied into thinking that they had to keep the law; that before they could be Christians, they had to be Jews.
For these Gentile followers of Jesus to submit themselves to the stringent demands of a covenant not their own would have indeed been slavery. But for the Jews, living a Torah life is, well, something else--something that I don't really understand...p. 88, see context
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