Galatians 5:2 (WEB)
Behold, I, Paul, tell you that if you receive circumcision, Christ will profit you nothing.
Catechism · 1
The New Law is called a law of love because it makes us act out of the love infused by the Holy Spirit, rather than from fear; a law of grace, because it confers the strength of grace to act, by means of faith and…
Fathers and councils · 9
Origen
“And therefore His disciples are forbidden to circumcise themselves, and are reminded (by the apostle): “If ye be circumcised, Christ shall profit you nothing.”” — editor's note: Gal. v. 2.
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John Cassian
- John Cassian, Conferences XI–XVII XVII.20Conference XVII
“Certainly in the case where, while he still kept in his inmost heart the opinion which he had maintained to the Galatians saying: “Behold, I, Paul, say unto you that if ye be circumcised Christ shall profit you nothing,” yet by circumcising Timothy he adopted a shadow as it were of Jewish superstition.” — editor's note: Gal. v. 2.
Read the whole comment - John Cassian, Conferences XVIII–XXIV XXIII.16Conference XXIII
“…unto you: if ye be circumcised Christ shall profit you nothing;” and to the Romans: “For I could wish that I myself were Anathema from Christ for my brethren.”” — editor's note: 2 Cor. x. 1; xii. 13, 16; Gal. v. 2; Rom. ix. 3.
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Gregory the Great
“But let him hear the Apostle Paul saying in opposition to him, If ye be circumcised, Christ profiteth you nothing (Galat. v. 2).” — the author cites it
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John Chrysostom
“And yet many of these children Paul hath affirmed to be nothing profited by their father; “For if ye be circumcised,” saith he, “Christ shall profit you nothing.”” — editor's note: Gal. v. 2.
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Augustine of Hippo
“…because they thought that in it was salvation; whence that saying, “Behold, I Paul say unto you, that if ye be circumcised, Christ shall profit you nothing.”” — editor's note: Gal. v. 2
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Tertullian
“He circumcised Timotheus alone, and yet did away with circumcision.” — editor's note: Comp. Acts xvi. 1–3 with Gal. v. 2–6, and similar passages.
Read the whole comment“Writing also to the Galatians, he inveighs against such men as observed and defend circumcision and the (Mosaic) law.” — editor's note: Gal. v. 2.
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Basil the Great
“I testify to every man who is confessing Christ and denying God, that Christ will profit him nothing; to every man that calls upon God but rejects the Son, that his faith is vain; to every man that sets aside the Spirit, that his faith in the Father and the Son…” — editor's note: cf. Gal. v. 2.
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Cross-references · 19
Cited together in The Prescription Against Heretics Chapter 31.
Cited together in The Prescription Against Heretics Chapter 31.
Cited together in The Prescription Against Heretics Chapter 31.
Cited together in The Prescription Against Heretics Chapter 31.
Cited together in Against Celsus V.48.
Cited together in Against Celsus V.48.
Cited together in Against Celsus V.48.
Cited together in Against Celsus V.48.
Cited together in On the Holy Spirit Chapter 10.
Cited together in Conferences XVIII–XXIV XXIII.16.
Cited together in Epistles, Books IX–XIV XIII.1.
Cited together in Epistles, Books IX–XIV XIII.1.
Cited together in On the Holy Spirit Chapter 10.
Cited together in On the Holy Spirit Chapter 10.
Cited together in The Prescription Against Heretics Chapter 31.
Cited together in On the Holy Spirit Chapter 10.
Cited together in Conferences XVIII–XXIV XXIII.16.
Cited together in Conferences XVIII–XXIV XXIII.16.
Cited together in Conferences XVIII–XXIV XXIII.16.