Galatians 5:12

‘I would that those who trouble you would even cut themselves off.'

NEB puts this in this way, ‘as for these agitators, they had better go the whole way and make eunuchs of themselves' (i.e. like the eunuch priests of Cybele who might have been well known to the Galatians). For if they made eunuchs of themselves instead of circumcising themselves they would be cut off from their own status under the Law (Deuteronomy 23:1). They would become outsiders. If we take it like this, this would represent a sardonic attack on the Judaisers. But, especially in view of what he is to say about love, he is possibly rather simply expressing a wish that they would ‘remove themselves' (a pun, having their preaching of circumcision in mind where the foreskin is removed), thus ‘cutting themselves off' from the Galatians.