He saw this vast database defined by four fields. Every nation, every language, every family, every people. It wasn't a bland, people plasma. The Judaizers were right to love the Law, but they were wrong to confuse their application of the Law with the Law itself. Saints, we've got to watch out that our theology doesn't become our Scripture.
Theology is a wonderful thing, but it's a human thing, and it's flawed.
All of our theology is flawed. It is the Scripture that is not flawed. And our Scripture must always take precedence over our theology. These Judaizers had never gotten over the wish that Christ would restore the kingdom to Israel. They had finally understood what God was intending to do through Israel in the Old Testament.