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Commentary Index | Return to PrayerRequest.comJamieson Fausset Brown Commentary - Romans 4:9 - 4:9
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Cometh this blessedness then, etc. - that is, “Say not, All this is spoken of the circumcised, and is therefore no evidence of God’s general way of justifying men; for Abraham’s justification took place long before he was circumcised, and so could have no dependence upon that rite: nay, ‘the sign of circumcision’ was given to Abraham as ‘a seal’ (or token) of the (justifying) righteousness which he had before he was circumcised; in order that he might stand forth to every age as the parent believer - the model man of justification by faith - after whose type, as the first public example of it, all were to be molded, whether Jew or Gentile, who should thereafter believe to life everlasting.”