How sadly out of order it would have been for a Levite to call upon one of the uncircumcised of the nations around to assist him in carrying any part of the tabernacle!
Jews and Canaanites--the seed of Abraham and uncircumcised Gentiles--united in one body?
Then said Saul to his armor bearer, Draw your sword, and thrust me through therewith, lest these uncircumcised come and thrust me through, and abuse me.
Your servant struck both the lion and the bear: and this uncircumcised Philistine shall be as one of them, seeing he has defied the armies of the living God.
The symbols are drawn from Old Testament history, from the religious life of the Jews--God's chosen people in contrast with the uncircumcised Gentiles.
The crowd of uncircumcised Gentiles and their profanation of the city of God for twelve hundred and sixty years correspond to the beast-power of chapter 13.
Of the uncircumcised Gentiles it is said, "The holy city shall they tread under foot forty and two months.
And the uncircumcised man-child, whose flesh of his foreskin is not circumcised, that soul shall be cut off from his people: he hath broken my covenant.
Jehovah took care of his poor erring servant; but Elohim, though unknown, acted upon the hearts of the uncircumcised Syrians.
The thoughts which were filling the patriarch's soul were entirely foreign to the uncircumcisedchildren of Heth.
Jeremiah ix, 26: For God will judge the uncircumcised peoples, and all the people of Israel, because he is "uncircumcised in heart.
According to the Acts, this began with the meeting of the disciples at Jerusalem, who assembled to settle the question which had arisen as to baptizing or not baptizing the uncircumcised who were still eating meats offered to idols.
And Moses spake before the LORD, saying, Behold, the children of Israel have not hearkened unto me; how then shall Pharaoh hear me, who am of uncircumcised lips?
And Moses said before the LORD, Behold, I am ofuncircumcised lips, and how shall Pharaoh hearken unto me?
Because I have spread my terror in the land of the living, and he hath slept in the midst of the uncircumcised with them that are slain by the sword: Pharao and all his multitude, saith the Lord God.
Thus saith the Lord God: No stranger uncircumcised in heart, and uncircumcised in flesh, shall enter into my sanctuary, no stranger that is in the midst of the children of Israel.
The uncircumcised shall not enter into the sanctuary: nor the Levites that have served idols: but the sons of Sadoc shall do the priestly functions, who stood firm in the worst of times.
Thou shalt die the death of the uncircumcisedby the hand of strangers: for I have spoken it, saith the Lord God.
The reason why their son had remained uncircumcised until then was that Jethro had made the condition, when he consented to the marriage of his daughter with Moses, that the first son of their union should be brought up as a Gentile.
A still further revelation of this spirit of regarding Pilate merely as a sacred instrument in the hands of God is shown by the Apocryphal Gospel of Nicodemus which speaks of him as "uncircumcised in flesh but circumcised in heart.
And now that he is uncircumcised in flesh, but circumcised in heart, has taken water and washed his hands in the face of the sun, saying, I am innocent of the blood of this just man; see ye to it.
Tell it not in Gath, Publish it not in the streets of Ashkelon; Lest the daughters of the Philistines rejoice, Lest the daughters of the uncircumcised triumph.
Then his father and his mother said unto him, Is there never a woman among the daughters of thy brethren, or among all my people, that thou goest to take a wife of the uncircumcised Philistines?
Saying: Why didst thou go in to men uncircumcised and didst eat with them?
You stiffnecked and uncircumcised in heart and ears, you always resist the Holy Ghost.
If people are stubborn and rebellious, stiff-necked and uncircumcised in heart and ears, the fewer of them the better.
The Israelites ate angels' food in the wilderness, and remained stiff-necked and uncircumcised in heart and ears.
How then shall Pharaoh listen to me, who am of uncircumcised lips?
Moses said before Yahweh, "Behold, I am of uncircumcised lips, and how shall Pharaoh listen to me?
And Moses said before the Lord: Lo I am of uncircumcised lips, how will Pharao hear me?
Moses answered before the Lord: Behold the children of Israel do not hearken to me: and how will Pharao hear me, especially as I am of uncircumcised lips?
When they hear any of theuncircumcised speak of God and of His law, they seek to come upon him by stealth in a solitary place and threaten to kill him unless he will be circumcised: if he refuses to obey, he is slain.
Tell it not in Gath; publish it not in the streets of Askalon, lest the daughters of the Philistines rejoice, lest the daughters of the uncircumcised triumph.
He called to his armour bearer: “Draw thy sword and kill me, lest these uncircumcised come and thrust me through and abuse me.
The songs are of strife and conquest; the great heroes are those who smite the uncircumcised hip and thigh.
The enthusiasm we feel in tracing the career of Deborah or Gideon fails us in reviewing these stories of revenge in which the Hebrew champion appears as cruel and reckless as an uncircumcised Philistine.
However, since the lion and the bear have not as yet devoured me, I hope God will also deliver us from the next uncircumcised Philistine.
Further, as to the passover, the uncircumcised were utterly forbidden to eat it (Exo 12:48).
For confident I am, that there is no more ground to make such a conclusion, than there is to say, that circumcision is still of force, though the law for cutting of the uncircumcised is by the gospel made null and void.
But nouncircumcised person was to eat the passover (Exo 12).
The fruit of their land was said to be uncircumcised (Lev 19:23).
It was the priest's sin, formerly to bring the uncircumcised in heart and flesh into his house.
How fitly you have urged (Eze 44) to insinuate that unbaptized believers are like the uncircumcised in heart and flesh, I leave it to all gospel-novices to consider.
The word circumcision seems to have a very elastic meaning "uncircumcised lips" is used to describe that want of power to speak fluently, from which Moses suffered and which he so often deplored.
To the Jews he became as a Jew; and to the uncircumcised as one uncircumcised, he was all things to all men!
The former of these statements enunciates a principle which has stood like a rock amid the ocean of conflicting interpretations, while the latter declares a fact which many nations of the uncircumcised have sought in vain to ignore.
The uncircumcised nations around might depend upon their prowess and their military resources: Israel had only the arm of Jehovah to depend upon, and that arm could never be stretched forth to shield unholiness or disobedience.
True, he might not have been able to make an uncircumcised stranger understand or appreciate the reason of his conduct; but this was not his province.
The uncircumcised nations around would have understood nothing of such holy ordinances; but Jehovah would have Israel holy, because He was Israel's God.
This, to an uncircumcised person, would have proved an intolerable burden.
Henceforth no more shall come The uncircumcisedinto thee, nor the unclean!
He said: "Stiff-necked ye, anduncircumcised In heart and ears!
Not only the uncircumcised are come, And heathen, into Thine inheritance, But of Thy chosen seed are risen up False children unto Abraham, to vex Our nation's peace and shame us to our foes.
Uncircumcised Gentiles might go where they pleased; the Israel of God were to go only to the place of His appointment.
This might, in the judgment of the uncircumcised nations around, seem very intolerant, very narrow, very bigoted.
The idea of two members of the assembly of God appearing before a tribunal of the uncircumcised for judgment would not have been tolerated for a moment.
They were not to concern themselves with the opinions or observations of the uncircumcised nations around.
Then Saul said to his armourbearer: Draw thy sword, and kill me: lest these uncircumcised come, and slay me, and mock at me.
For I thy servant have killed both a lion and a bear: and this uncircumcised Philistine shall be also as one of them.
I will go now, and take away the reproach of the people: for who is this uncircumcised Philistine, who hath dared to curse the army of the living God?
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "uncircumcised" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
