Topic
Concision
4 passages cited, from 3 classic reference works.
These works date from 1896–1915 and are in the public domain. They reflect the Protestant scholarship of their time: their history, archaeology and dates can be out of date, and where they interpret, other traditions read the text differently. The verses are shown in the King James Version, the wording these works were written against.
The verses
The passages the works cite, those cited by more of them first.
- Philippians 3:2Easton · ISBE · Nave A term for “over-zealous” circumcision
Beware of dogs, beware of evil workers, beware of the concision.
- Deuteronomy 23:1ISBE
He that is wounded in the stones, or hath his privy member cut off, shall not enter into the congregation of the LORD.
- Galatians 5:12ISBE
I would they were even cut off which trouble you.
- Philippians 3:3ISBE
For we are the circumcision, which worship God in the spirit, and rejoice in Christ Jesus, and have no confidence in the flesh.
In the reference works
Easton's Bible Dictionary (1897) · 1 references
(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.”
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (1915) · 4 references
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 (Php 3:2), as distinguished from peritome, the true circumcision (Php 3:3). Compare Ga 5:12 and De 23:1, and see CIRCUMCISION.
In the topical indexes
Nave's Topical Bible (1896) · 1 references, grouped by sub-topic
- → A term for “over-zealous” circumcision Php 3:2
Texts: Easton's Bible Dictionary (1897); International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (1915); Nave's Topical Bible (1896), from the CrossWire SWORD modules (public domain). Verse references were parsed from the works' own markup and checked against the KJV verse list.