ACC ~ Romans 2 v27

BREAKERS AND KEEPERS OF THE LAW. ORIGEN: The Jew according to the flesh may keep the law, but only the man who is spiritual, who is a Jew in secret, can fulfill it. Insofar as the former is a transgressor of the law, it is the latter who will be his judge. COMMENTARY ON THE EPISTLE TO THE ROMANS.

THE GENTILE WHO BELIEVES. AMBROSIASTER: The Gentile who believes under the guidance of nature condemns the Jew, to whom Christ was promised through the law and who refused to believe in him when he came. For as much as the Gentile is being prepared for glory for having known the Creator of nature by nature alone, so the Jew deserves to be punished all the more because he did not know Christ the Creator, either by nature or by the law. COMMENTARY ON PAUL’S EPISTLES.

TWO TYPES OF UNCIRCUMCISION. CHRYSOSTOM: Here Paul clearly recognizes that there are two types of uncircumcision—one by nature and the other by will. Here he speaks of the physical uncircumcision and goes on to say that if it keeps the law it will judge the circumcision which breaks it. … For this kind of uncircumcision is offended when the law is broken and comes to its defense. … It is not the law which is dishonored but the one who disgraces the law. HOMILIES ON ROMANS 6.

LITERAL AND SPIRITUAL CIRCUMCISION. PELAGIUS: This either means that as long as the Jews continue their literal circumcision they reject the spiritual circumcision, or that they will be judged because they have not followed what the law said, viz., that by believing in Christ they might receive the true circumcision. PELAGIUS’S COMMENTARY ON ROMANS.

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