Verse 27
And shall not uncircumcision which is by nature ,.... That is, the Gentiles, who are by nature uncircumcised; for as circumcision was by the command of God, and performed by the art of men, uncircumcision is by nature, and what men naturally have. Now
if it , such persons,
fulfil the law in Christ, they will
judge thee , the circumcision: and condemn, as Noah condemned the old world, Hebrews 11:7 , and the men of Nineveh and the queen of the south will condemn the men of that generation, in which Christ lived, Matthew 12:41 .
Who by the letter and circumcision transgress the law ; that is, either by the law, which is "the letter", and "by circumcision", or "by circumcision which is in the letter", Romans 2:29 , sin being increased by the prohibitions of the moral law, and the rituals of the ceremonial law, and the more so by a dependence upon an obedience to either of them, or both, for justification.
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