...2 — 5. " Behold, I Paul say unto you, that if ye be circumcised, Christ shall profit you nothing. For I testify again to every man that is circumcised,...justified by the law ; ye are fallen from grace." — In the 27th verse of the third chapter of the same Epistle, the apostle says : — " For as many...

...For I testify, again, to every man that is circumcised, that he is a debtor to do the whole law. 4 Christ is become of no effect unto you ; whosoever...are justified by the law, ye are fallen from grace. 5 For we, through the Spirit, wait for the hope of righteousness by faith. 6 For in Jesus Christ, neither...

...19. tion did in reality abandon the great exclusive privilege of the Gospel salvation by Christ : " Christ is become of no effect unto " you, whosoever...justified by the " Law : ye are fallen from grace°." These are the points most strenuously urged by the Apostle, in his controversy with Judaizing teachers....

...present with you now, and to change my voice ; for I stand in doubt of you.' And again, chap. v, 4, ' Christ is become of no effect unto you, whosoever...are justified by the law, ye are fallen from grace.' Who, therefore, that reads this epistle with attention, can believe that the members of these Churches...

...sufficiency to justify and save us : Jf ye be circumcised, verily, Christ shall profit you nothing. 3 For I testify again to every man that is circumcised, that he is a debtor to do the whole law. He that urges the necessity of circumcision, is a debtor to the law, in a double respect, namely, in...

...tradition which ye have delivered: and many such like things do ye. Mar. vii. 10 — 13. He is a debtor.] tans. Our fathers worshipped in this mountain (said the aroman), and ye say, That in Jerus Ga. v. 3. 7 17 Ye fools and Mind.] Undenuai ntish among the people ; and, yt fcok, w will ye be wise...

...observances, and as involving an obligation to do " the whole law," in order to justification. — " I testify again to every man that is circumcised, that he is a debtor to do the whole law ; whosoever of you are justified by the law, ye are fallen from grace." " Knowing that a man is not...

...under the law? I answer, Even then when he was circumcised: thus Paul protests, Gal. 5:3. " I testify Z` ) !R Y R "/ 09V 5 | ֤ " ^ at his circumcision entered into bond with us, and undertook for us; and therefore then, and not till...

...mercy. And, as if the apostle intended to put this matter beyond all possibility of doubt, he says, Christ is become of no effect unto you. Whosoever...are justified by the law, ye are fallen from grace. (Gal. v. 4.) There appears to be a continual struggle in the world, between the principle of salvation...

...legitimate inference, but it is not one that would have occurred to many persons. From the text — "I testify again to every man that is circumcised that he is a debtor . to do the whole law," (Gal. v. 3.) he drew the inference, the correctness of which cannot be doubted, that the candidate...