For neither they themselves who are circumcised keep the law; but desire to have you circumcised, that they may glory in your flesh.
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Jerome
AD 420
Because of the weakness of the sin nature, Paul says, the law cannot be fulfilled. Hence the Jews keep the commands and traditions of the elders rather than God’s commands, performing neither the whole body of the law (which is impossible) nor the spirit of the law, which they did not understand. .
