It's great that Paul arrived on the scene. One group in Galatia was a big fan of circumcision, so
Paul fired off an angry letter in which he wrote in Galatians 5:12.."I could wish that those who
trouble you would even cut themselves off" !
Wow, Paul was saying to the circumcision fanatics they should excommunicate themselves from the
church and that is not all. He actually tell them to excommunicate their whole penis from the rest of
their body.
The greek word used here for "cut off" is pretty much never, ever used metaphorically. It always means
a literal, physical cutting of the bodily kind.