Encyclopedia entry
Concision
(Gr. katatome; i.e., “mutilation”), a term used by Paul contemptuously of those who were zealots for circumcision (Phil. 3:2). Instead of the warning, “Beware of the circumcision” (peritome) i.e., of the party who pressed on Gentile converts the necessity of still observing that ordinance, he says, “Beware of the concision;” as much as to say, “This circumcision which they vaunt of is in Christ only as the gashings and mutilations of idolatrous heathen.”
In the Bible
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Verses where Concision is named. Berean Standard Bible (public domain).
- Philippians 3:2
Watch out for those dogs, those workers of evil, those mutilators of the flesh!
Scripture on Concision
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Sources · Easton's Bible Dictionary (1897)
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