English “of the circumcision” emboldened in Romans 15:8 “Now I say that Jesus Christ was a minister of the circumcision for the truth of God, to confirm the promises made unto the fathers:” was translated from Greek feminine noun 4061 peritome which was translated into “circumcision” in Romans 2:29 “But he is a Jew, which is one inwardly; and circumcision is that of the heart, in the spirit, and not in the letter; whose praise is not of men, but of God”. There was a flesh Old Testament/covenant/contract between God and the Israelites. There is a spiritual New Testament/covenant/contract between God and God’s “seven thousand” “elect” “election” “chosen” by God to be the “sons of God” whose flesh thoughts and feelings are circumcised from their heart, soul and mind in deference to God’s spiritual thoughts and ways which is the circumcision noted in Romans 2:29 and the circumcision which is one of the predicates of the spiritual New Testament/covenant/contract between God and God’s “seven thousand” “elect” “election” “chosen” by God to bring God’s will {defined in Ephesians 1:10 1Timothy 2:3-6 and Romans 8:18-23} to fruition during the “thousand years” between this earth age and the eternal age that follows.
English “for” emboldened in Romans 15:8 was translated from Greek preposition 5228 huper meaning “over” in the genitive case as a grammatical subject is over their grammatical objects. God came to earth in the embodiment of Jesus Christ and died on a Roman cross to release his spirit into the atmosphere in order to be our one and only grammatical subject which is why Exodus 20:3-5 and 2Corinthians 11:2 say “Thou shalt have no other gods before me” “Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth” “Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them: for I the LORD thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me”. “For I am jealous over you with godly jealousy: for I have espoused you to one husband, that I may present you as a chaste virgin to Christ” and why James 4:4-5 says “Ye adulterers and adulteresses, know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God? whosoever therefore will be a friend of the world is the enemy of God” “Do ye think that the scripture saith in vain, The spirit that dwelleth in us lusteth to envy”? God has one church the “church of the firstborn” of Hebrews 12:22-24 “But ye are come unto mount Sion, and unto the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to an innumerable company of angels” “To the general assembly and church of the firstborn, which are written in heaven, and to God the Judge of all, and to the spirits of just men made perfect” “And to Jesus the mediator of the new covenant, and to the blood of sprinkling, that speaketh better things than that of Abel”. God doesn’t give a rip about molten, graven or carved trinkets. God cares about flesh human beings displacing God as one’s own grammatical subject for which purpose God died on a Roman cross. Reminder: Greek preposition 5228 huper meaning “over” in the genitive case as a grammatical subject is over their grammatical objects appears in Romans 15:8 “truth” which is defined by God in the next post.
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