Philippians 3:3
Douay-Rheims
For we are the circumcision, who in spirit serve God; and glory in Christ Jesus, not having confidence in the flesh.
Tertullian
And so to the Law presently had to succeed the Word of God introducing the spiritual circumcision. Therefore, by means of the wide licence of those days, materials for subsequent emendations were furnished beforehand, of which materials the Lord by His Gospel, and then the apostle in the last days of the (Jewish) age, either cut off the redundancies or regulated the disorders.
Source details
A.D. 220 · on Phil 3:3 (To His Wife Book I)
Imported from an open dataset — not yet checked against the printed edition.