To Florus 2.152

Christ both forgave the will’s crimes, from which they had been free to abstain, and granted the glory of blessed eternity to those corrected by imitation of him, the model and rule of virtues. Although Paul addresses both nations as the course and demands of his book require, in these disputed passages he is engaged entirely with the Israelites. They dared to despise those coming from uncircumcised stock so thoroughly that they asserted these people could not enter their fellowship even through the support of faith. Against this arrogance he recounts the Jewish people’s beginnings and shows, at the very root of circumcision, that the foreskin is not so important that leaving it makes people unjust or removing it makes them just.