Therefore if the uncircumcision keeps the righteousness of the law, shall not his uncircumcision be counted for circumcision?
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John Chrysostom
AD 407
Look how clever Paul is. He does not say that the uncircumcision overcomes circumcision (for that would have angered the Jews who read his letter) but that the uncircumcision has become circumcision. Next he asks what circumcision really is, and he says that it is welldoing, whereas uncircumcision is evildoing. Having moved the uncircumcised who does good deeds over to the circumcised and having pushed the circumcised man who leads a corrupt life into the ranks of the uncircumcised, Paul states his preference for the physically uncircumcised.
