1 Corinthians 7:18

Is any man called being circumcised?.... That is, if any man that is a Jew, who has been circumcised in his infancy, is called by the grace of God, as there were many in those days, and many of them…

Is any man called? - Does anyone become a Christian? See the note at 1Co 1:26. Being circumcised - Being a native-born Jew, or having become a Jewish proselyte, and having submitted to the initiatory…

Is any man called being circumcised? - Is any man who was formerly a Jew converted to Christianity?

Let him not become circumcised - Let him not endeavor to abolish the sign of the old covenant, which…

Here the apostle takes occasion to advise them to continue in the state and condition in which Christianity found them, and in which they became converts to it. And here,

I. He lays down this rule in…

Is any man called being circumcised? let him not become uncircumcised Many Jews, we are assured, were ashamed of their Judaism, and were desirous to obliterate all the outward signs of it. (1Ma 1:15.)…