Patristic A.D. 420
“Circumcision is of value as a sign if righteousness accompanies it; without righteousness the rest is useless. Or this [verse] may mean that circumcision enabled the Jew to live and escape condemnation in childhood before reaching the age of understanding. Or perhaps, because he set it in the context of the law, it is that … when the circumcision of the flesh ends, the true circumcision of the heart will come. A man breaks the law when he does not follow what is foretold in it.”
Historical Christian Faith commentaries database, on Rom 2:25 (PELAGIUS'S COMMENTARY ON ROMANS)
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