For he is not a Jew, which is one outwardly; neither is that circumcision, which is outward in the flesh:
Ver. 28. Neither is that circumcision] See Colossians 2:11. See Trapp on " Col 2:11 " Inward circumcision is (as Origen describeth it) Purgatio animae et abiectio vitiorum, or (as St Paul in the place above named) the putting off old Adam with his actions, by the circumcision of Christ, by his merit and Spirit.