...placing any the least confidence in them, would take away all chance of assistance from the Gospel. " Behold, " I Paul say unto you, that if ye be " circumcised, Christ shall profit you " nothing," Gal. v. 2. The earnestness with which St. Paul presses this point, the extent to which he dwells upon...

...law shall no flesh be justified." (Gal. ii. 16.) And again : (p. 73, L 21.) " Christ is become of uo effect unto you, whosoever of you are justified by the law ; ye are fallen from grace." (Gal. v. 4.)— The epistle, from which all these texts are taken, was written against the Judaizers, who contended...

...bondage. , 2 Behold, I Paul sayunto you, That if ye be circumcised, Christ shall profit you nothing. 3 For I testify again to every man that is circumcised, that he is a debtor to do thé whole law. 4 Christ is become of no effect unto you, whosoever of you are justified by thé law...

...could it be said, that the children of promise exceed in number the children of the flesh. v. 2. " Behold, I Paul say unto you, that if ye be circumcised, 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. 4....

...both, and obliged himself to perform the law ; to which that of the Apostle relates ; Gal. v. 3. / approw in another. Verse 28. But if I cast tlit whole law. But the baptism of John was a baptism of repentance, Mark i. 4. which being undertaken,...

...is needless in that respect; according to the apostle's reasoning, Gal. v. 4. " Christ is rendered of no effect unto you, whosoever of you are justified by the law." Doubtless, it is Christ's prerogative to be our Saviour in that sense wherein he is our Saviour. And...

...deemed a renunciation of Christ, a denial of his advent in the flesh ; for so the apostle witnesseth ; " Behold, I Paul say " unto you, that if ye be circumcised, Christ shall " profit you nothing6." This is the unhappy case of the Jews, to this day ; who, having lost the evangelical faith...

...24. — v. 2. view of the subject we can have no doubt ; for he expressly says to the Galatians, " Christ is become of no effect unto you, whosoever of you are justified," (that is, seek to be justified, or think that you are justified,) " by the law : ye are fallen from...

...successively to sacrifice in the temple of Jerusalem, by the advice of James. He writes to the Galatians, " Behold, I Paul say unto you, that if ye be circumcised, Christ shall profit you nothing."7 And he afterwards circumcises his disciple Timothy, who, as the Jews pretend, was the son...

...consideration, it appeared to our Apostle in the churches of Galatia, and roused his zeal into indignation. "Behold, I Paul say unto you, that if ye be cir"cumcised,...profit you nothing. For I testify "again to every man who is circumcised, that he is a "debtor to do the whole law. Christ is become of none "effect unto...