Beware of dogs] by dogs he understandeth the false Apostles, whom he calleth by this vile and reproachfull name, because they barked at the light truth, snarled and bit sound and sincere preachers with their slanders: or because they returned unto their former grosse and scandalous vices, as the dog to his vomit, 2 Peter 2. 22. evil workers] Either dccitfull workers, as 2 Corinthians 11:13. who seemed to seek the glory of God; but indeed aimed at their own profit, honour, or glory: or false teachers, who under pretence of building Gods Church, pulled it down; who took great toyle and paines, but onely to vent and further spread their erroneous and dangerous doctrin. the concision] He calleth them so, not for that they made cuttings in their flesh, after the manner of the supe stitious Gentiles; but because by urging circumcision the made a rent and conciston in the Church: or the praeposition 〈in non-Latin alphabet 〉in 〈in non-Latin alphabet 〉as in 〈in non-Latin alphabet 〉, and divers other words is taken in the worser sense, to disgrace and disparge the circumcision they so much boasted of, which was now no more a seale of Gods covenant, but a mer cutting of the flesh with an incision also, and wounding of the conscience.