circumcision of the heart
idea · 2 works · 2 mentions · 3 anchored passages
circumcision of the flesh · the new circumcision
in the texts
Adversus Judaeos
The circumcision 'of the heart' foretold by Jeremiah as replacing carnal circumcision for the obedient people.
For just as the carnal circumcision, which was temporary, was instilled as a sign to a stubborn people, so the spiritual circumcision was given for salvation to an obedient people, the prophet Jeremiah saying:
And first it must be asked whether a giver of the new law is awaited, and an heir of the new covenant, and a priest of the new sacrifices, and a purifier of the new circumcision, and a keeper of the eternal Sabbath, who would restrain the old law and establish the new covenant, and offer the new sacrifices, and check the old ceremonies, and restrain the old circumcision with its own Sabbath, and a …
Adversus Marcionem
The distinction between literal circumcision of the flesh under the law and circumcision of the heart in the spirit, argued to belong to one God.
But if this is the circumcision of Jeremiah, And circumcise the foreskins of your heart, as Moses too said, Circumcise your hardness of heart — then his will be the spirit circumcising the heart whose is also the letter reaping its flesh, and his the Jew who is in secret whose too is the Jew in the open, because the apostle would not even name a Jew who was not the servant of the God of the Jews.