“For circumcision verily profiteth, if thou keep the law: but if thou be a breaker of the law, thy circumcision is made uncircumcision.”
Circumcision has value if you observe the law, but if you break the law, you have become as though you had not been circumcised. Circumcision (peritomē), the sign of the covenant, possesses value (ōpheleō) only when accompanied by obedience. The law-breaker, despite the physical sign, is rendered uncircumcised (aperitmētos) in heart and standing. The external mark becomes meaningless without the internal reality it signifies.
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