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... Mutilating the body of a live baby is heinous - but this is the essence of Jewish circumcision. In some societies, criminal guilt is collective. A...

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...nter into and unite themselves with her. “Where there is neither Greek nor Jew, circumcision, nor uncircumcision, Barbarian, Scythian, bond nor free:... ... bound by the law of Moses, God hath given the Holy Ghost, even as to us of the circumcision who have believed; and in this respect there has not bee...

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... than the parents’ faith, To save them: those first ages past, behoov’d That circumcision in the males should imp The flight of innocent wings: but s...

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...God is blasphemed among the Gen tiles through you, as it is written. 25 For circumcision verily profiteth, if thou keep the law: but if thou be a bre... ...ly profiteth, if thou keep the law: but if thou be a breaker of the law, thy circumcision is made uncircumcision. 26 Therefore if the uncircumcision k... ... the righteous ness of the law, shall not his uncircumcision be counted for circumcision? 27 And shall not uncircumcision which is by nature, if it f... ...ess the law? 28 For he is not a Jew, which is one outwardly; neither is that circumcision, which is outward in the flesh: 29 But he is a Jew, which is... ...God. Chapter 3 W hat advantage then hath the Jew? or what profit is there of circumcision? 2 Much every way: chiefly, because that unto them were comm... ...o whom the Lord will not impute sin. 9 Cometh this blessedness then upon the circumcision only, or upon the uncircumcision also? for we say that faith... ... then reckoned? when he was in circumci sion, or in uncircumcision? Not in circumcision, but in uncircumcision. 11 And he received the sign of circu... ...; that righ teousness might be imputed unto them also: 12 And the father of circumcision to them who are not of the circumcision only, but who also w...

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...re are many unruly and vain talkers and de ceivers, specially they of the circumcision: 11 Whose mouths must be stopped, who subvert whole houses, te...

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...of dogs, beware of evil workers, beware of the concision. 3 For we are the circumcision, which worship God in the spirit, and rejoice in Christ Jesus,...

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...es in the flesh, who are called Uncircumcision by that which is called the Circumcision in the flesh made by hands; 12 That at that time ye were witho...

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... In vain do we try to substitute mystical rites that cost nothing, such as circumcision, or, as a substitute for that, baptism. Our sense of justice s... ...n is stirring the people very strongly. John has declared that the rite of circumcision is insufficient as a dedication of the individual to God, and ... ...m. To us, who are accustomed to baptism as a matter of course, and to whom circumcision is a rather ridiculous foreign practice of no con- sequence, t... ...ould do so. But, as St. Paul found to his cost later on, the discarding of circumcision for baptism was to the Jews as startling a heresy as the disca... ... Jew initiated by baptism instead of 27 Preface to Androcles and the Lion circumcision, and accepting Jesus as the Messiah, and his teachings as of h... ... at the ap- proach of Jesus when the two mothers visit one another. At the circumcision of Jesus pious men and women hail the infant as the Christ. Th... ...le to the Gentiles. The Jews had their own rite of initiation: the rite of circumcision; and they were fiercely 84 Shaw jealous for it, because it ma... ... and higher authority than the Mosaic rite, he was compelled to admit that circumcision did not matter; and this, to the Jews, was an intolerable blas... ...zed it did not matter a rap whether he was circumcized or not. Paul claims circumcision as an excellent thing in its way for a Jew; but if it has no e...

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...umcised. Is any called in uncircumcision? let him not be circum cised. 19 Circumcision is nothing, and uncircumcision is nothing, but the keeping of ...

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... needful for males with their innocent plumage to ac- quire virtue through circumcision. But after the time of grace had come, without perfect baptism...

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... than the parents’ faith, To save them: those first ages past, behoov’d That circumcision in the males should imp The flight of innocent wings: but s...

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...8–17]. And after promising Abraham the inheritance in his seed, he gave him circumcision as a mark of his justification by faith [Gen. 17:3–11]. Thus... ... and the bread, saved Abel by his sacrifice, Noah by the rainbow, Abraham by circumcision, and all the others by their respective signs. So far as th... ...aying: “Not the sacrament, but the faith of the sacrament, justifies.” Thus circumcision did not justify Abraham and his seed, and yet the Apostle c... ... righteousness by faith [Rom. 4:11], because faith in the promise, to which circumcision was added, justified him and fulfilled what the circumcision... ... and fulfilled what the circumcision signified. For faith was the spiritual circumcision of the foreskin of the heart [Deut. 10:16; Jer. 4:4], which ... ...n of the heart [Deut. 10:16; Jer. 4:4], which was symbolized by the literal circumcision of the flesh. In the same way it was obviously not Abel’s s... ...he keys are peculiar to the New Law. Just as we now have baptism instead of circumcision, so we have the keys instead of sacrifices and other signs o...