CONCISION
kon-sizh'-un (katatome, "mutilation," "cutting"): A term by which Paul contemptuously designates the merely fleshly circumcision upon which the Judaizers insisted as being necessary for Gentileconverts (Phil 3:2), as distinguished from peritome, the true circumcision (Phil 3:3). Compare Gal 5:12 and Dt 23:1, and see CIRCUMCISION. |