Romans 2:25

25. For What the connexion indicated by the for is not immediately clear; but it doubtless refers to an intermediate thought which the apostle knows from experience to be in the mind of the Jew. In bar to the charges of 21-24, you Jews cannot plead your circumcision, for

Made uncircumcision The popular creed was, None circumcised are damned. Yet the more spiritual doctors, indignant at the thought that the outrages of many of their race should be supposable cancelled by the mere rite, taught a better doctrine. Thus one writer makes the Almighty say to the Jews, “It is the proselytes who are the circumcised, you are uncircumcised.” Again, R. Beuchias said, “Let not heretics, apostates, and the impious of Israel say, ‘Since we are circumcised we shall not go down to hell.’ For God will send his angel and restore their foreskins, so that they may go down to hell uncircumcised.”