[LearsFool]

No, Paul was not a hypocrite for circumcising Timothy. As Luke explains in the passage you quoted, he did it "because of the Jews which were in those quarters."

I Corinthians 9 helps us understand what that means:

"For though I was free from all men, I brought myself under bondage to all, that I might gain the more. And to the Jews I became as a Jew, that I might gain Jews; to them that are under the law, as under the law, not being myself under the law, that I might gain them that are under the law; to them that are without law, as without law, not being without law to God, but under law to Christ, that I might gain them that are without law. To the weak I became weak, that I might gain the weak: I am become all things to all men, that I may by all means save some. And I do all things for the gospel's sake, that I may be a joint partaker thereof."

Acts 21 has another example of Paul (and other disciples) making overtures to the Jews to ease their transition from the old Law to the gospel of Christ. Paul declares his love for Israel in Romans 9 and 10, and he went to great lengths - suffering imprisonment, beatings, etc. - to make peace between those who clung to the Law and those who understood the "new covenant" more fully.

[the_daug]

Gal 3:17 And this I say, that the covenant, that was confirmed before of God in Christ, the law, which was four hundred and thirty years after, cannot disannul, that it should make the promise of none effect.
Gal 3:18 For if the inheritance be of the law, it is no more of promise: but God gave it to Abraham by promise.

That is why I think Paul circumcised Timothy, Paul stated that Christ does not disannull the promise.