Colossians 2:10 — Community Reflections

COLOSSIANS 2:10 — KING JAMES VERSION 1 0

“And ye are complete in him, which is the head of all principality and power:”

In him also you were circumcised with the circumcision made without hands, by putting off the body of the flesh in the circumcision of Christ — circumcision (peritomē) is spiritual: 'made without hands' (cheiropoiētos) contrasts with Jewish literal circumcision. 'Putting off the body of the flesh' (apekdysis tou sōmatos tēs sarkos) is conversion's stripping: old self dies. 'In the circumcision of Christ' grounds circumcision in Christ's death and resurrection (not legal observance). Christian conversion is true circumcision.

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