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John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
[Cometh] this blessedness then upon the circumcision [only]?.... That is, upon the circumcised Jews; are they the only persons that partake of this happiness? the word "only" is rightly supplied, and is in the Claromontane exemplar used by Beza, and in the Vulgate Latin and Ethiopic versions: or upon the uncircumcision also? upon the uncircumcised...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Cometh this blessedness then upon the circumcision only, or upon the uncircumcision also? Is circumcision so necessary that a man is justified by faith after he is circumcised, and could not be so justified if he were an uncircumcised man?
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For we say that faith was reckoned to Abraham for righteousness. How was it then reckoned? When he was in circumcision, or in uncircumcision? Look back to the history. See in what condition Abraham was when faith was reckoned to him for righteousness. Was it when he was in circumcision or in uncircumcision? The answer is: —
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Cometh this blessedness then upon the circumcision only, or upon the uncircumcision also? for we say that faith was reckoned to Abraham for righteousness. How was it then reckoned? when he was in circumcision, or in uncircumcision? Not in circumcision, but in uncircumcision. And he received the sign of circumcision, a seal of the righteousness of...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Cometh this blessedness then upon the circumcision only, or upon the uncircumcision also? Is this blessing entailed upon the natural seed of Abraham alone, or is it for others besides the Jews?
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For we say that faith was reckoned to Abraham for righteousness. How was it then reckoned? when he was in circumcision, or in uncircumcision? Not in circumcision, but in uncircumcision. If you turn again to Gen_15:6, and then to 17:10, you will find that Abraham was justified by faith before the rite of circumcision was instituted. The blessing...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
How was it then reckoned?.... The Arabic version adds, "and when"; and the Ethiopic version reads it, "when was Abraham justified?" expressing the sense, not the words of the original text, with which agree the following questions: when he was in circumcision, or in uncircumcision? that is, was he justified, or his faith reckoned to him for...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Not in circumcision, but in uncircumcision. And he received the sign of circumcision, a seal of the righteousness of the faith which he had yet being uncircumcised: But the sign is to follow the thing signified. He is, first of all, justified by his faith, and then afterwards he receives the token of the covenant.
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
And he received the sign of circumcision,.... Or "the sign circumcision", as the Syriac version reads it, and so the Alexandrian copy, and two of Stephens's; that is, Abraham received at the hands of God, the commandment of circumcision, which was a "sign" or token of the covenant; not of grace, but of that peculiar covenant God made with Abraham...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
That he might be the father of all them that believe, though they be not circumcised: that righteousness might be imputed unto them also: It is a very remarkable fact. A great many readers of the Book of Genesis would never have noticed it if the Holy Ghost had not called attention to the fact that father Abraham was justified by his faith before...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And he received the sign of circumcision, a seal of the righteousness of the faith which he had yet being uncircumcised: that he might be the father of all them that believe, though they be not circumcised; that righteousness might be imputed unto them also: and the father of circumcision to them who are not of the circumcision only, but who also...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
And the father of circumcision,.... So the Jews call Abraham ראש הנימולים (l), "the head of those that are circumcised"; and ראש למולים (m), "the head to them that are circumcised"; but the apostle here says, he is a father to them who are not of the circumcision only; not to the Jews only, in a spiritual sense, and not to all of them, since some...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And the father of circumcision to them who are not of the circumcision only, but who also walk in the steps of that faith of our father Abraham, which he had being yet uncircumcised. For the promise, that he should be the heir of the world, was not to Abraham, or to his seed, through the law, but through the righteousness of faith. For the law was...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
For the promise that he should be heir of the world,.... This promise is thought by some to refer to that of his being "the father of many nations", Genesis 17:4; by whom the Gentiles are particularly meant, who are sometimes called "the world", and "the whole world", or the elect of God, the believing part of the world; whether among Jews or...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For the promise, that he should be the heir of the world, was not to Abraham, or to his seed, through the law, but through the righteousness of faith. For if they which are of the law be heirs, faith is made void, and the promise made of none effect: But that would also make void circumcision and the whole of the ancient covenant, seeing that the...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For the promise, that he should be the heir of the world, was not to Abraham, or to his seed, through the law, but through the righteousness of faith. The law was promulgated on mount Sinai four hundred years after the covenant of grace was made with Abraham the father of believers, and so made with all believers, for they are his true seed, and...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
For if they which are of the law be heirs,.... That is, if the Jews who are under the law, and are seeking for righteousness and life by the works of it, should, on the account of their obedience to it, be heirs of the grace of life and of glory, faith is made void; for if the right to the inheritance is by the works of the law, there is no room...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For if they which are of the law be heirs, faith is made void, and the promise made of none effect: If you are upon that tack of salvation by the law, then what have you to do with faith? And what have you to do with promise, and what have yea to do with Christ? You are on a different line altogether.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For if they which are of the law be heirs, faith is made void, and the promise made of none effect: because the law worketh wrath: for where no law is, there is no transgression. So that the law is not for justification, but for condemnation. It is the law that reveals sin, and that shows sin to be sin; so men can never become right with God by...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Because the law worketh wrath,.... Not the wrath of man, though that is sometimes stirred up through the prohibitions of the law, to which the carnal mind of man is enmity, but the wrath of God the law is so far from justifying sinners, that it curses and condemns them; and when it comes into the heart and is let into the conscience of a sinner,...