Verse 2
PART THIRD.
EXHORTATION TO STEADFASTNESS IN CHRISTIAN DUTY, Galatians 5:2 to Galatians 6:18.
1. Admonitory warnings to maintain their freedom from circumcision and legalism, Galatians 5:2-12.
2. Behold, I Paul The apostle throws all his emphasis and all his authority into this warning. If this fail, his Galatians are lost. They would relapse into Ebionism, and in all probability become an apostate people.
If ye be circumcised Become circumcised; that is, as was now required as necessary to justification.
Shall Will.
Profit you nothing Seeing ye seek justification not from Him, but from the Law. Ye are Jews rejecting the Messiah. As Chrysostom (quoted in Greek, by Alford) says: “He that becomes circumcised, does it for fear that he cannot be justified without the law, and so disbelieves the power of grace; but the disbeliever in grace receives no salvation from grace.” So in Acts 15:1: “Certain men said, Except ye be circumcised after the manner of Moses, ye cannot be saved.” This was a very different sort of circumcision from that of Timothy by Paul, Acts 16:3; a mere physical act performed in order to remove obstacles to his success in the ministry.
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