Is this blessing pronounced only upon the circumcised, or also upon the uncircumcised? We say that faith was reckoned to Abraham as righteousness.
And he believed the Lord; and he reckoned it to him as righteousness.
he says: “It is too light a thing that you should be my servant to raise up the tribes of Jacob and to restore the preserved of Israel; I will give you as a light to the nations, that my salvation may reach to the end of the earth.”
a light for revelation to the Gentiles, and for glory to thy people Israel.”
How then was it reckoned to him? Was it before or after he had been circumcised? It was not after, but before he was circumcised.
For what does the scripture say? “Abraham believed God, and it was reckoned to him as righteousness.”
that in Christ Jesus the blessing of Abraham might come upon the Gentiles, that we might receive the promise of the Spirit through faith.
To me, though I am the very least of all the saints, this grace was given, to preach to the Gentiles the unsearchable riches of Christ,
Here there cannot be Greek and Jew, circumcised and uncircumcised, barbarian, Scythian, slave, free man, but Christ is all, and in all.