Romans 2:25 (WEB)
For circumcision indeed profits, if you are a doer of the law, but if you are a transgressor of the law, your circumcision has become uncircumcision.
Fathers and councils · 5
Augustine of Hippo
“That is, let him not so live, as though he had become uncircumcised, and covered that which he had laid bare: as in another place he saith, “Thy circumcision is become uncircumcision.”” — editor's note: Rom. ii. 25
Read the whole comment“How can a man become uncircumcised after circumcision? but let him not do so, saith he: let him not so live as if he had become uncircumcised, that is, as if he had covered again with flesh the part that was bared, and ceased to be a Jew; as in another place he saith, “Thy circumcision is become uncircumcision.”” — editor's note: Rom. ii. 25
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Gregory of Nazianzus
“He gives laws for slaves and masters, rulers and ruled, husbands and wives, parents and children, marriage and celibacy, self-discipline and indulgence, wisdom and ignorance, circumcision and uncircumcision, Christ and the world, the flesh and the spirit.” — editor's note: Rom. ii. 25, 29.
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Leo the Great
“Where is thy boasting, O Jew? where thy noble birth drawn from the stem of Abraham? is not thy circumcision become uncircumcision?” — editor's note: Rom. ii. 25.
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Clement of Alexandria
“To illustrate: the noble apostle circumcised Timothy, though loudly declaring and writing that circumcision made with hands profits nothing.” — editor's note: Rom. ii. 25; Eph. ii. 11. [Plainly, he introduces this example of an apparent inconsistency, because only so far he supposes the Gnostic may allow himself,…
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Cross-references · 7
Parallel passages
Romans 2:25 and James 4:11 share the same wording (11 words).
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Cited together in Of the Work of Monks Chapter 12.
Cited together in The Stromata, or Miscellanies VII.9 and 1 other place.
Cited together in Of the Work of Monks Chapter 12.
Cited together in Of the Work of Monks Chapter 12.
Cited together in Of the Work of Monks Chapter 12.
Cited together in The Stromata, or Miscellanies VII.9.
