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ROMANS CHAPTER 3
Rom_3:1,2 The Jew’s prerogative,
Rom_3:3,4 which is not vacated by the unbelief of some,
Rom_3:5-8 nor is God’ s justice impeached in punishing their sinfulness.
Rom_3:9-19 The law itself convinceth the Jews also universally of sin,
Rom_3:20 so that no flesh is justified by the deeds of the law,
Rom_3:21-30 but all indiscriminately by God’s grace through faith in Christ,
Rom_3:31 yet without annulling the obligations of the law.
What advantage then hath the Jew? An elegant prolepsis or anticipation of what might be objected against the apostle’s assertion in the foregoing words. If the Jews (might some object) lie equally exposed to condemnation with the Gentiles, then they have no excellency above them. Or thus, If external things do not commend us to God, (as it is affirmed, Rom_2:28,29), but the Gentiles are brought into the church without them, then the Jews have no prerogative above the Gentiles, though God hath owned them so long for his peculiar people.
What profit is there of circumcision? i.e. what is the use of it, or for what end was it instituted, seeing the uncircumcised are brought in and accepted, as being circumcised notwithstanding, and clean in heart?