John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Genesis 17:11
And ye shall circumcise the flesh of your foreskin ,.... Or "the foreskin of your flesh" F21 את בשר ערלתכם "praeputium carnis vestrae", Drusius, Piscator. ; by an hypallage F22 According to E. W. Bullinger, "hypallage" "relates to an interchange of construction whereby an adjective or other word, which `logically' belongs to one connection, is grammatically united with another, so that what is said or attributed to one things ought to be said or attributed to another". ,... read more
Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Genesis 17:7-14
Here is, I. The continuance of the covenant, intimated in three things:?1. It is established; not to be altered nor revoked. It is fixed, it is ratified, it is made as firm as the divine power and truth can make it. 2. It is entailed; it is a covenant, not with Abraham only (then it would die with him), but with his seed after him, not only his seed after the flesh, but his spiritual seed. 3. It is everlasting in the evangelical sense and meaning of it. The covenant of grace is everlasting. It... read more