Behold, I Paul say unto you, that if ye be circumcised, Christ shall profit you nothing.
Ver. 2. Behold I Paul] q.d. As true as I am Paul, and do write these things.
Christ shall profit you nothing] For he profits none but those that are found in him, not having their "own righteousness, which is of the law, but that which is through the faith of Christ, the righteousness which is of God through faith,"Philippians 3:9. As Pharaoh said of the Israelites, "they are entangled in the land, the wilderness hath shut them in,"Exodus 14:3; so may it be said of Pharisaical and Popish justiciaries, they are entangled in the fond conceits of their own righteousness, they cannot come to Christ. A man will never truly desire Christ till soundly shaken,Haggai 2:7 .