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uncircumcision

[ uhn-sur-kuhm-sizh-uhn ]

noun

  1. the state or condition of being uncircumcised.
  2. people who are not circumcised; gentiles. Romans 2:26.


uncircumcision

/ ˌʌԲɜːəˈɪə /

noun

  1. New Testament the state of being uncircumcised
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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of uncircumcision1

First recorded in 1520–30; un- 1 + circumcision
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"Circumcision is nothing and uncircumcision nothing; only faith working through love."

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To appreciate the enlargement which has come to Christianity beyond its merely 'apostolic' form through the independent development of the Greek churches in this second period we must realize that Paul's 'gospel of the uncircumcision' differed in respect to promise as well as law.

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It had no share in the Divine polity framed for the chosen people; the outward mark of its uncircumcision was a true symbol of its irreligion and debasement.

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The rest of the world—Philistines or Egyptians, Greeks, Romans, or Barbarians, it mattered not—were “the Uncircumcision.”

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