Bible Dictionary: Circumcision: A Seal of the Covenant

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Torrey's Topical Textbook

Genesis 17:11
And you shall circumcise the flesh of your foreskin; and it shall be a token of the covenant between me and you.
Torrey's Topical Textbook

Romans 4:11
And he received the sign of circumcision, a seal of the righteousness of the faith which he had yet being uncircumcised: that he might be the father of all them that believe, though they be not circumcised; that righteousness might be imputed to them also:
Torrey's Topical Textbook

Library

Covenanting Enforced by the Grant of Covenant Signs and Seals.
... Circumcision was given, not merely as a sign to denote God's Covenant, but as a
seal to give assurance of its benefits, and also of the performance of its ...
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Entire Sanctification in Type.
... The seal of the covenant with Abraham was circumcision, and this became the perpetual
rite by which his descendants were admitted to the rights and privileges ...
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Covenanting Provided for in the Everlasting Covenant.
... on God's covenant.[436]. Even as circumcision was, baptism is, a sign and
seal of the Covenant of Grace.[437]. In the Lord's Supper ...
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On the Sacraments of the Old Testament, the Tree of Life ...
... Circumcision is the sign of the covenant into which God entered with Abraham to
seal or witness the promise about the blessed seed that should be born of him ...
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Inseparable Connection Between the Old and the New Testament.
... The seal of circumcision, then, did not make the covenant valid, for the covenant
existed many years before the rite of circumcision was instituted. ...
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Acts XVI
... circumcision could be the seal. Again: it was not to the Jew an initiatory rite.
For, first, the law of God prescribing to Abraham the terms of the covenant ...
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The Mission of Paul and Silas to Macedonia.
... with a Gentile, that her son had not received the seal of God's covenant in his ... of
Paul is derived from the different lights in which circumcision might be ...
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The Formation and Order of the Primitive Church.
... was continued, and gave them and their children a right to baptism, the present
seal of the covenant, as both had formerly received the seal of circumcision. ...
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The Spiritual Meaning of Circumcision.
... verily the people are circumcised for a seal." But so ... are these then also within
the bond of His covenant? ... 1566] Yea, the Egyptians also practise circumcision. ...
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Circumcision and Baptism. (Written Only for those who Practise ...
... Circumcision and baptism ... 1 Thus did the sons of Abrah'm pass Under the bloody seal
of grace ... 2 By milder ways doth Jesus prove His Father's covenant, and his love ...
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