...and deny not that the circumcision is honourable. But when ? When it has the Law kept along witli it. But if thou be a breaker of the Law, thy circumcision is made un circumcision. He does not say, it is no more profitable, lest he should seem to insult it. But having...

...when they came of age, the great truths of which it was a token. " Circumcision," says the apostle, " verily profiteth if thou keep the law; but if thou...the law, thy circumcision is made uncircumcision." " For he is not a Jew who is one outwardly; neither is that circumcision, which is outward in the flesh:...

...own sins to account for, but also the sins of their people, if committed by their profligate example. 25 For circumcision verily profiteth, if thou keep...the law, thy circumcision is made uncircumcision. 26 Therefore, if the uncircumcision keep the righteousness of the law, shall not his uncircumcision...

...without piety ' Why, Paul teaches us, that circumcision, without true piety, was absolutely worthless, " For circumcision verily profiteth, if thou keep the...the law, thy circumcision is made uncircumcision," Rom. ii. 25. Now, can a man keep the law, the moral law, of which, as the connection shows, he is speaking,...

...told you that circumcision did not require piety ; yet Paul says it was of no avail without piety ; " Circumcision verily profiteth if thou keep the law...the law, thy circumcision is made uncircumcision." Yes, he says, circumcision required no piety ; yet Paul says, it required that a man should keep the...

...whether it is duly fulfilled. We are told concerning the analogous rite of circumcision, that it " verily profiteth if thou keep the law, but if thou...the law, thy circumcision is made uncircumcision." Does not the same hold equally of baptism, though it be the door by which we are admitted into Christ's...

...sacraments are to the wicked and unbelievers no sacraments ; which agree! h with that, Rom. ii. 25, " If thou be a breaker of the law, thy circumcision is made uncircumnsion."2 Fifthly, The Apostle argues that Abraham, the father of the faithful, and v/aose justification...

...God! But the spirit of God has decided, that circumcision without obedience was a nullity. Rom. 2 : 25, " For circumcision verily profiteth if thou keep...the law thy circumcision is made uncircumcision." Reader, did the covenant of circumcision bind Abraham and his seed to love and serve the true God ?...

...nothingness when compared •with the bold and heart-stirring sentiment of the Holy Spirit by the apostle, " Circumcision verily profiteth, if thou keep the law...the law, thy circumcision is made uncircumcision." The last quotation is moreover contradictory to sentiment of the book Zeror hammor, (fol. 27,) •which...

...Gentiles ; God was not honoured, but blasphemed by them. " Circumcision," as the Apostle told them, " profiteth, if thou keep the law ; but if thou be a...the law, thy circumcision is made uncircumcision." Practical religion, the religion required by Gi,d, is that of the heart ; in the spirit, and not in...