Bible Dictionary: 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 ...
/...//christianbookshelf.org/aquinas/summa theologica/whether there can be any 2.htm

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 ...
//christianbookshelf.org/augustine/on lying/section 7 neither do they.htm

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. ...
//christianbookshelf.org/pascal/pensees/section x typology.htm

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? ...
/.../chrysostom/homilies on acts and romans/homily xvi acts vii 6.htm

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 ...
/.../aquinas/summa theologica/whether baptism was instituted after.htm

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 ...
//christianbookshelf.org/orr/the gospel day /chapter iii false teachings 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