Is thisblessingthenon the circumcised,oron the uncircumcisedalso?For we say,"FAITHWAS CREDITEDTO ABRAHAMAS RIGHTEOUSNESS."
Then he believedin the LORD;and He reckonedit to him as righteousness.
He says,"It is toosmalla thingthat You should be My ServantTo raiseup the tribesof Jacoband to restorethe preservedones of Israel;I will also makeYou a lightof the nationsSo that My salvationmay reachto the endof the earth."
A LIGHTOF REVELATIONTO THE GENTILES,And the gloryof Your peopleIsrael."
Howthenwas it credited?While he was circumcised,oruncircumcised?Not while circumcised,but while uncircumcised;
For whatdoes the Scripturesay?"ABRAHAMBELIEVEDGOD,AND IT WAS CREDITEDTO HIM AS RIGHTEOUSNESS."
in orderthat in ChristJesusthe blessingof Abrahammight cometo the Gentiles,sothat we would receivethe promiseof the Spiritthroughfaith.
To me, the very leastof allsaints,thisgracewas given,to preachto the Gentilesthe unfathomablerichesof Christ,
[a renewal] in whichthereis no[distinction between] Greekand Jew,circumcisedand uncircumcised,barbarian,Scythian,slaveand freeman,but Christis all,and in all.
