Matthew Poole and continuators on Ephesians 2:11

11 Wherefore remember that ye being in time past Gentiles in the flesh , who are called uncircumcision , by that which is called the circumcision in the flesh made by hands .

Either 1. Carnal, Unregenerate, as Rom. 8.8, 9. Or 2. rather Uncircumcised in the Flesh, as well as in Heart, Ezek. 44.7. such as neither had the Grace signified, nor the Sign representing it.

By way of Reproach; to be Uncirumcised being the badge of them that were not Israelites, and so were not in the number of God's people.

i. e. by those that are Circumcised: the Abstract here, as in the former Clause, being put for the Concrete. He means the carnal Iews, who had the Circumcision of the Flesh which was made with hands, but not that of the Heart, Rom. 2.29. made without hands, Col. 2.11.

Marginal references: 1 Cor. 12.2. Col. 1.21.