Romans 2:26

If then the ben Adam without milah who is shomer fulfilling the just requirements of the Torah, + 2:26 T.N. see Ro 8:4 will not his orlah (uncircumcision) be counted as “milah”?

Orthodox Jewish Bible

In The King James Version

Therefore if the uncircumcision keep the righteousness of the law, shall not his uncircumcision be counted for circumcision?

In Context

25For the milah (circumcision) is an asset + 2:25 T.N. contra Ac 21:21 if you stand in mishma'at (obedience) to the Torah. But if + 2:25 See Ga 5:2-4; Dt 27:26 you are mefir (violator) of the Torah, + 2:25 2:23 your milah (circumcision) has become “orlah” (uncircumcision).

27And the naturally uncircumcised ben Adam who has mishma'at (obedience) to the Torah + 2:27 T.N. Ro 2:15 will arise as a judgment on you. You! The very one who through chumra (stringency, strict adherence to the letter of the law) and circumcision + 2:27 i.e., uncircumcision, see Ro 2:25 are the transgressor + 2:27 Ro 7:22-23; Yn 7:19 of Torah!

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Cross References

Joshua 5:5Now Kol HaAm that came out were Mulim (circumcised); but Kol HaAm that were born in the midbar baderech when they came forth out of Mitzrayim, them they had not given Bris Milah.

Matthew 8:11And I say to you, that many from the mizrach (east) and the maarav (west) will come and will sit bimesibba (reclining at tish) with Avraham and Yitzchak and Ya'akov in the Malchut HaShomayim.

Acts 10:2A devout man, a yire Elohim, as was all his bais, who practiced much tzedakah for the benefit of Am Yisroel, and davened to Hashem continually.

Acts 11:3Saying, You entered into a bais of anashim arelim (uncircumcised men) and you sat at tish with them.

Romans 8:4In order that the maleh chukat haTorah + 8:4 see Lv 18:5 (the full statute requirement of the Torah) might be fulfilled in us whose halakhah is in the Derech [HaChayyim] (the Way [of Life]) according to the Ruach Hakodesh and not in accordance with the basar.

Ephesians 2:11Therefore, have zikaron (remembrance) that formerly you, the non-Jews in the flesh, who are called “arelim” (uncircumcised ones) by the ones being called “nimolim” (circumcised ones) which is a Milah performed in the flesh by human hands,

Matthew Henry on Romans 2:18-29

The Pretensions of the Jews; The Depravity of the Jews. ( a. d. 58.) 17 Behold, thou art called a Jew, and restest in the law, and makest thy boast of God, 18 And knowest his will, and approvest the things that are more excellent, being instructed out of the law; 19 And art confident that thou thyself art a guide of the blind, a light of them which are in darkness, 20 An instructor of the foolish, a teacher of babes, which hast the form of knowledge and of the truth in the law. 21 Thou therefore which teachest… Read the whole commentary →

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