Circumcision

The believer today is a circumcised individual with a circumcision made without hands. "For we are the circumcision which worship God in spirit, and rejoice in Jesus Christ, and have no confidence in the flesh" (Phil. 3:3). The Old Testament rite of circumcision, the cutting of the foreskin of the male child, was a token of the covenant (Gen. 17:11). The outward sign, administered to the eight-day-old man-child born in the house or bought with money of the stranger, portrayed in a striking way...