uncircumcised] They made the holy Ordinance of God a meane to compasse their wicked purpose: It is ill to deceive though in meere civill matters, but much worse to doe it under pretence of Religion, for that is to joyne impiety against God, with injurie to man; See Absoloms hypocrisie, 2 Sam. 15. 7, 8. that were a reproach] Isaac and Jacob both tooke wives out of uncircumcised families, yet without reproach, but it was worse to give a daughter to an uncircumcised husband, for Circumcision was not an Epicene, or common, but onely a masculine sacrament, ordained for men onely, not for women; yet it was unlawfull for an Israelite, whether male or female, to match with a Canaanite; nor was Circumcision to be obtruded upon them, being unbeleevers, since it was a seale of the righteousnesse of faith, Romans 4:11.