BEWARE, says the apostle, of dogs, beware of evil workers, beware of the concision. That is, beware of religious teachers who make something of the flesh, who trust in it, or to the works of the law. It may seem humility to seek in self something good, but such a doctrine is the result of pride of heart. Beware of it, shun it, Christ and Christ only is the ground of confidence. Christ was crucified for us, and in His death is the judicial end of man. Christ is risen from the dead and is in heaven, the head of the new creation. Now, faith lays hold of the fact that in Christ’s death is the end of the man judicially, and abhors everything which in any way brings in self—either good self or bad—and more, faith sees in Christ, where He is, true righteousness, and esteems before God, only the righteousness which is of God by faith.