Circumcision: Initiatory Rite of the O.T. Church

British Reformed Journal As the sign and seal of the covenant, circumcision constituted in the strictest sense, the initiatory ordinance of the ancient church. The truth of this proposition admits of easy and complete demonstration. Among the Israelites, the stranger who joined himself to the Lord, the proselyte (Grk.:1Tpoa17Avros-) of the Septuagint, Ex. xii . 48; Lev. xvii. 8, and of the New Testament, Acts ii. 10; vi. 5, was undoubtedly admitted to church membership by the rite of...