uncircumcision
Americannoun
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the state or condition of being uncircumcised.
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people who are not circumcised; gentiles. Romans 2:26.
noun
Etymology
Origin of uncircumcision
First recorded in 1520–30; un- 1 + circumcision
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He likes to quote Paul's Epistle to the Colossians: "There is neither Greek nor Jew, circumcision nor uncircumcision, Barbarian, Scythian, bond nor free, but Christ is all, and in all."
From Time Magazine Archive
“For in Christ Jesus,” says St. Paul, “neither circumcision availeth anything, nor uncircumcision, but a new creature.”
From Grace, Actual and Habitual A Dogmatic Treatise by Arthur Preuss
His last word to the Galatians—the gathering up into one strong sentence of his whole letter—is, 'In Christ Jesus, neither circumcision availeth anything, nor uncircumcision, but a new creature.'
From Expositions of Holy Scripture Second Corinthians, Galatians, and Philippians Chapters I to End. Colossians, Thessalonians, and First Timothy. by Alexander Maclaren
Neither bond nor free, neither circumcision nor uncircumcision.
From The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning by Hugh Binning
Yes, of Gentiles also; 30seeing that God is one, who will justify the circumcision by faith, and the uncircumcision through the faith. 31Do we then make void law through the faith?
From The New Testament of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. The common English version, corrected by the final committee of the American Bible Union. by American Bible Union
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