“For he is not a Jew, which is one outwardly; neither is that circumcision, which is outward in the flesh:”
A person is not a Jew who is one only outwardly, nor is circumcision merely outward and physical. Paul now defines Jewish identity redefined: it is not constituted by external markers (en tōi phanerōi) alone. Jewishness cannot be reduced to genealogy or ritual practice (sarkikos). The true Jew must embody something more than ethnic privilege.
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