心裏麵作猶太人的才是真猶太人 — 羅馬書讀經隨筆 第2章

羅馬書第二章，保羅針對羅馬信徒中猶太人的情況說外表是猶太人的並不是真猶太人，在肉身上做的割禮的也不是真割禮。惟有心裏麵作猶太人的才是真猶太人，真割禮也是來自心裏，是靈裏的而不是字麵的。遵行了律法的人，他所受的割禮是有益的，而不遵行律法的人，他所受的割禮與沒有受割禮的無異。而沒有受割禮的人，如果遵行了律法，就與受了割禮的無異。這樣沒有受割禮的因遵行了律法就可以審判受了割禮但是犯了律法的人。這些受了割禮而犯法的人，自己不遵行律法，還論斷別人沒有遵行。對於這樣的人，保羅說神必照真理審判他。

羅2:1 你這論斷人的、無論你是誰、也無可推諉、你在甚麽事上論斷人、就在甚麽事上定自己的罪．因你這論斷人的、自己所行卻和別人一樣。
Therefore you are without excuse, O man, whoever you are who judge. For in that which you judge another, you condemn yourself. For you who judge practice the same things.
羅2:2 我們知道這樣行的人、 神必照真理審判他。
We know that the judgment of God is according to truth against those who practice such things.
羅2:25 你若是行律法的、割禮固然於你有益．若是犯律法的、你的割禮就算不得割禮。
For circumcision indeed profits, if you are a doer of the law, but if you are a transgressor of the law, your circumcision has become uncircumcision.
羅2:26 所以那未受割禮的、若遵守律法的條例、他雖然未受割禮、豈不算是有割禮麽。
If therefore the uncircumcised keep the ordinances of the law, won't his uncircumcision be accounted as circumcision?
羅2:27 而且那本來未受割禮的、若能全守律法、豈不是要審判你這有儀文和割禮竟犯律法的人麽。
Won't the uncircumcision which is by nature, if it fulfills the law, judge you, who with the letter and circumcision are a transgressor of the law?
羅2:28 因為外麵作猶太人的、不是真猶太人、外麵肉身的割禮、也不是真割禮．
For he is not a Jew who is one outwardly, neither is that circumcision which is outward in the flesh;
羅2:29 惟有裏麵作的、才是真猶太人．真割禮也是心裏的、在乎靈不在乎儀文．這人的稱讚、不是從人來的、乃是從 神來的。
but he is a Jew who is one inwardly, and circumcision is that of the heart, in the spirit not in the letter; whose praise is not from men, but from God.