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Romans 2:24-26
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Romans 2:24-26
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24 For just as it is written, “the name of God is being blasphemed among the Gentiles because of you.”[a]
25 For circumcision[b] has its value if you practice the law, but[c] if you break the law,[d] your circumcision has become uncircumcision. 26 Therefore if the uncircumcised man obeys[e] the righteous requirements of the law, will not his uncircumcision be regarded as circumcision?
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- Romans 2:24 sn A quotation from Isa 52:5.
- Romans 2:25 sn Circumcision refers to male circumcision as prescribed in the OT, which was given as a covenant to Abraham in Gen 17:10-14. Its importance for Judaism can hardly be overstated: According to J. D. G. Dunn (Romans [WBC], 1:120) it was the “single clearest distinguishing feature of the covenant people.” J. Marcus has suggested that the terms used for circumcision (περιτομή, peritomē) and uncircumcision (ἀκροβυστία, akrobustia) were probably derogatory slogans used by Jews and Gentiles to describe their opponents (“The Circumcision and the Uncircumcision in Rome,” NTS 35 [1989]: 77-80).
- Romans 2:25 tn This contrast is clearer and stronger in Greek than can be easily expressed in English.
- Romans 2:25 tn Grk “if you should be a transgressor of the law.”
- Romans 2:26 tn The Greek word φυλάσσω (phulassō, traditionally translated “keep”) in this context connotes preservation of and devotion to an object as well as obedience.
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