Circumcision: Necessity of, Asserted by False Teachers

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Acts 15:24
For as much as we have heard, that certain which went out from us have troubled you with words, subverting your souls, saying, You must be circumcised, and keep the law: to whom we gave no such commandment:
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Galatians 6:12
As many as desire to make a fair show in the flesh, they constrain you to be circumcised; only lest they should suffer persecution for the cross of Christ.
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Titus 1:10
For there are many unruly and vain talkers and deceivers, specially they of the circumcision:
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Library

The Mission of Paul and Silas to Macedonia.
... dissension and disputation with those who asserted the necessity ... without any idea
of its necessity or merit ... Circumcision, and the long train of rites enjoined ...
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Letter Lxxxii. (AD 405. )
... before, but not to be of necessity practised by ... those ordinances which were merely
typical, circumcision and the ... ought rather to have been asserted in answer ...
/.../augustine/the confessions and letters of st/letter lxxxii a d 405.htm

Book ix. In the Last Book we Treated of the Indistinguishable ...
... So the necessity of perpetual increase, which is imposed on ... The circumcision of Christ
does not mean the putting ... voice which they heard itself asserted that it ...
/.../hilary/the life and writings of st hilary of poitiers/book ix in the last.htm

Introduction.
... If they had merely asserted that he had sanctioned ... now institutions were to be of
necessity more permanent ... If circumcision could not be practised, as necessary ...
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Of the True Church. Duty of Cultivating Unity with Her, as the ...
... The necessity of cleaving to the Holy Catholic Church ... Still a community is asserted,
such as Luke describes ... to the apostleship of the circumcision, the same ...
/.../calvin/the institutes of the christian religion/chapter 1 of the true.htm

Coornhert and the Collegiants --A Movement for Spiritual Religion ...
... prophets and apostles always knew, was a circumcision of the ... 1677, at which time
the latter "asserted that nobody ... itself in us by an inherent necessity of self ...
/.../chapter vii coornhert and the.htm

Sources and Literature of the Apostolic Age.
... extensive spread of skepticism and the necessity of fighting ... labor, and the question
of circumcision; the older ... the rights of Christian liberty asserted on the ...
/.../history of the christian church volume i/section 20 sources and literature.htm

Acts xv. 13, 15
... matters?" For what the objectors asserted, was not ... the Gentiles), although themselves
being in circumcision. ... deal transposed, without any necessity, and the ...
/.../chrysostom/homilies on acts and romans/homily xxxiii acts xv 13.htm

Index of Subjects.
... Circumcision, law of, how far, and when, repealed, [385 ... conduct, [643]365; of Judas
asserted, [644]486 ... Necessity, doctrine of, disproved, [1215]181; not implied ...
/.../chrysostom/homilies on the gospel of saint matthew/index of subjects.htm

Homilies on the Gospel of John.
... Circumcision, was before the Law, and of equal obligation ... the Body of Christ,
[641]166; absolute necessity of, [642 ... 865]17; of Christ's manhood asserted, [866] ...
/.../homilies on the gospel of st john and hebrews/homilies on the gospel of.htm

Subtopics

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