If ye be circumcised; that is, circumcised as a profession of your dependence for salvation on the law of Moses. Acts 15:1. It was not against the simple rite of circumcision that the apostle contended, for Timothy was circumcised under his direction as a prudential measure, to avoid the prejudices of the Jews, Acts 16:3; but against circumcision as necessary to salvation, which was the error of the false teachers among the Galatians.

Christ shall profit you nothing; for ye have left him for the law.

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