Beware of the concision. For we are the circumcision, who worship God in the spirit, and rejoice in Christ Jesus, and have no confidence in the flesh. (Philippians 3:2-3)
There is a remarkable gradation in the language of the apostle respecting this Jewish ordinance, when we compare the epistles in the order of time.
In the first recorded discourse of the apostle, at Antioch, though circumcision is not named, it is included in the negative description, as a part of the law which could not justify. “By him, all that believe are justified from all things, from which ye could not be justified by the law of Moses,” Acts 13:39.
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Author: T. R. Birks
Keywords: Circumcision, Concision, Paul and circumcision, Paul on circumcision, Paul's view of circumcision, Jewish party, Judaizers, Judaisers
Bible reference(s): Acts 13:39, Romans 2:28-29, Philippians 3:2-3, 1 Cor. 7:18-19, Colossians 2:11, Colossians 3:11
Source: Horae Apostolicae (London: The Religious Tract Society, 1850).
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