Galates 5:3

3 Et je proteste encore à tout homme qui se fait circoncire, qu'il est obligé d'observer toute la loi.

Galates 5:3 Meaning and Commentary

Galatians 5:3

For I testify again to every man
This is the form of an oath, a calling God to witness, swearing by the living God, and declaring as in his presence to every man, whether Jew or Gentile, whoever he be:

that is circumcised;
in order to obtain salvation, and as necessary to it:

that he is a debtor to do the whole law;
and this it is that made circumcision an insupportable yoke, for that itself might be bore, and was bore by children of eight days old; but the fulfilling of the whole law cannot be done by any man; and yet everyone that is circumcised, in order to procure righteousness and life, is bound to keep the whole law; because the law is only his righteousness, when he observes all that is required in it, and as the Lord has commanded; if he does not, he is pronounced accursed: and this proves what was before said, that Christ is of no profit to such persons; because they reject him and his righteousness, and, as much as in them lie, make void his obedience, sufferings, and death: hence the same thing is repeated, though not in the same words, in the next verse.

Galates 5:3 In-Context

1 Tenez-vous donc fermes dans la liberté, dont Christ vous a rendus libres, et ne vous remettez pas de nouveau sous le joug de la servitude.

2 Moi, Paul, je vous dis, que si vous vous faites circoncire, Christ ne vous servira de rien.

3 Et je proteste encore à tout homme qui se fait circoncire, qu'il est obligé d'observer toute la loi.

4 Vous êtes séparés de Christ, vous tous qui vous justifiez par la loi, vous êtes déchus de la grâce.

5 Car, pour nous, nous attendons par l'Esprit l'espérance d'être justifiés par la foi.