Circumcision: Figurative
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Exodus 6:12
And Moses spoke before the LORD, saying, Behold, the children of Israel have not listened to me; how then shall Pharaoh hear me, who am of uncircumcised lips?
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Deuteronomy 10:16
Circumcise therefore the foreskin of your heart, and be no more stiff necked.
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Deuteronomy 30:6
And the LORD your God will circumcise your heart, and the heart of your seed, to love the LORD your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, that you may live.
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Jeremiah 4:4
Circumcise yourselves to the LORD, and take away the foreskins of your heart, you men of Judah and inhabitants of Jerusalem: lest my fury come forth like fire, and burn that none can quench it, because of the evil of your doings.
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Jeremiah 6:10
To whom shall I speak, and give warning, that they may hear? behold, their ear is uncircumcised, and they cannot listen: behold, the word of the LORD is to them a reproach; they have no delight in it.
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Jeremiah 9:26
Egypt, and Judah, and Edom, and the children of Ammon, and Moab, and all that are in the utmost corners, that dwell in the wilderness: for all these nations are uncircumcised, and all the house of Israel are uncircumcised in the heart.
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Romans 2:28,29
For he is not a Jew, which is one outwardly; neither is that circumcision, which is outward in the flesh:
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Romans 15:8
Now I say that Jesus Christ was a minister of the circumcision for the truth of God, to confirm the promises made to the fathers:
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Philippians 3:3
For we are the circumcision, which worship God in the spirit, and rejoice in Christ Jesus, and have no confidence in the flesh.
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Colossians 2:11
In whom also you are circumcised with the circumcision made without hands, in putting off the body of the sins of the flesh by the circumcision of Christ:
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Colossians 3:11
Where there is neither Greek nor Jew, circumcision nor uncircumcision, Barbarian, Scythian, bond nor free: but Christ is all, and in all.
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Whether the Ceremonial Precepts have a Literal Cause or Merely a ...
... seem that the ceremonial precepts have not a literal, but merely a figurative cause.
For among the ceremonial precepts, the chief was circumcision and the ...
/.../aquinas/summa theologica/whether the ceremonial precepts have.htm

Whether Circumcision was a Preparation For, and a Figure of ...
... But circumcision was a sacrament, and a preparation for Baptism; although less clearly
figurative of Baptism, as to externals, than the aforesaid. ...
/.../aquinas/summa theologica/whether circumcision was a preparation.htm

Some Rules for Discerning what is Said About Christ the ...
... Christ is oftentimes called a Stone in parable, and in figurative speech Jacob ... For
your first circumcision was and is performed by iron instruments, for you ...
/.../chapter cxiv some rules for discerning.htm

Whether the Ceremonies of the Old Law Ceased at the Coming of ...
... Therefore at least circumcision and the other legal solemnities should not have
ceased ... then, nothing in regard to worship of God will be figurative; there will ...
/.../aquinas/summa theologica/whether the ceremonies of the 3.htm

Whether There Can be any Suitable Cause for the Sacraments of the ...
... The figurative reason for circumcision was that it foreshadowed the removal of
corruption, which was to be brought about by Christ, and will be perfectly ...
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Neither do they Confess that they are Awed by those Citations from ...
... from the books of the New Testament, except the figurative pre-significations ... he
preached that neither are the Gentiles the better for circumcision, nor the ...
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Typology
... that God delighted not in temples made with hands, but in a pure and contrite heart;
that the circumcision of the ... All that tends not to charity is figurative. ...
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Acts vii. 6, 7
... "And he gave him the covenant of circumcision: and so he begat Isaac ... Do you observe
all along a figurative enacting, so to say, of the resurrection of the dead? ...
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Whether Baptism was Instituted after Christ's Passion?
... Christ's Passion men were not bound to be baptized: for Circumcision was still ... First,
because Christ's Passion put an end to the figurative sacraments, which ...
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False Teachings of the Apostasy.
... If circumcision be typical of infant baptism, it is only the boy infant that would
be ... The wolf dwelling with the Lamb is figurative language, and never will be ...
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Circumcision

Circumcision was Performed by Persons in Authority

Circumcision was Performed by the Heads of Families

Circumcision was Performed in the Presence of the Family

Circumcision was Performed with Knives of Flint

Circumcision was Performed: Even on the Sabbath Day

Circumcision was Performed: On Males Home-Born and Bought

Circumcision was Performed: On the Eighth Day

Circumcision without Faith, Vain

Circumcision without Obedience, Vain

Circumcision: A Designation of Christians

Circumcision: A Designation of the Jews

Circumcision: A Painful and Bloody Rite

Circumcision: A Prerequisite of the Privileges of the Passover

Circumcision: A Seal of Righteousness

Circumcision: A Seal of the Covenant

Circumcision: Abolished by the Gospel

Circumcision: Abraham

Circumcision: Abrogated

Circumcision: Accompanied With Naming the Child

Circumcision: Called The: Circumcision in the Flesh

Circumcision: Called The: Concision

Circumcision: Called The: Covenant of Circumcision

Circumcision: Characterized by Paul As a Yoke

Circumcision: Child Named at the Time of

Circumcision: Covenant Promises of

Circumcision: Described

Circumcision: Enforced by the Law

Circumcision: Figurative

Circumcision: First Performed on Abraham and his Family

Circumcision: Instituted by God

Circumcision: Institution of

Circumcision: Introductory Jewish Ordinances

Circumcision: Inward Grace

Circumcision: Israelites at Gilgal

Circumcision: Jesus

Circumcision: John the Baptist

Circumcision: Moses

Circumcision: Necessary to Enjoying the Privileges of the Jewish State

Circumcision: Necessity of, Asserted by False Teachers

Circumcision: Necessity of, Denied by Paul

Circumcision: Necessity of, Falsely Taught by Judaizing Christians

Circumcision: Neglect of, Punished

Circumcision: Neglected

Circumcision: Not Performed in the Wilderness

Circumcision: Outward Sign of

Circumcision: Paul

Circumcision: Paul Denounced for Opposing

Circumcision: Paul's Argument Against the Continuance of

Circumcision: Performed by Joshua at Gilgal

Circumcision: Performed on all Males on the Eighth Day

Circumcision: Performed on Timothy As a Matter or Expediency Because of The

Circumcision: Promises to Abraham Previous To

Circumcision: Punishment for Neglecting

Circumcision: Purity of Heart

Circumcision: Purity of Speech

Circumcision: Readiness to Hear and Obey

Circumcision: Rite of, Observed on the Sabbath

Circumcision: Saints the True Spiritual

Circumcision: Shechemites

Circumcision: Sometimes Performed on Slain Enemies

Circumcision: The Jews: Denominated By

Circumcision: The Jews: Despised As Unclean Those not of The

Circumcision: The Jews: Held It Unlawful to Intermarry With Those not of The

Circumcision: The Jews: Held No Intercourse With Those not of The

Circumcision: Timothy

Circumcision: Trusting To, a Denial of Christ

Circumcising
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