## testify ## "declare" or "serve as a witness" ## to every man who is circumcised ## "to every person who has become a Jew." Paul is using circumcision as a mmetonym for being Jewish. (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-metonymy]]) ## obliged ## "bound" or "constrained" or "enslaved" ## to do ## "to obey" ## You are alienated from Christ ## "You have ended your relationship with Christ" ## seek to be justified by the law ## "look for ways to have God declare you good by obeying the law." The law is metonymy for Judaism. ## you have fallen away from grace ## Paul is comparing a person who decides that he does not need or want the grace of Christ to someone who falls from a good high place to a bad lower place. (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-metaphor]])