Col 2:11 | RWP | e4.org | Ye were also circumcised ( κα περιετμηθητε ). First aorist passive indicative of περιτεμνω , to circumcise. But used here as a metaphor in a spiritual sense as in "the circumcision of the heart." Not made with hands ( αχειροποιητω ). This late and rare negative compound verbal occurs only in the N.T. ( ; ; ) by merely adding α privative to the old verbal χειροποιητος ( ; ), possibly first in where both words occur concerning the temple. In the reference is to the resurrection body. The feminine form of this compound adjective is the same as the masculine. In the putting off ( εν τη απεκδυσε ). As if an old garment (the fleshly body). From απεκδυομα ( , possibly also coined by Paul) and occurring nowhere else so far as known. The word is made in a perfectly normal way by the perfective use of the two Greek prepositions ( απο, εκ ), "a resource available for and generally used by any real thinker writing Greek" (Moulton and Milligan, Vocabulary ). Paul had as much right to mint a Greek compound as any one and surely no one ever had more ideas to express and more power in doing it. Of Christ ( του Χριστου ). Specifying genitive, the kind of circumcision that belongs to Christ, that of the heart.

‏ Colossians 2:11

Ye were also circumcised ( κα περιετμηθητε ). First aorist passive indicative of περιτεμνω, to circumcise. But used here as a metaphor in a spiritual sense as in Ro 2:29 "the circumcision of the heart."

Not made with hands ( αχειροποιητω ). This late and rare negative compound verbal occurs only in the N.T. (Mr 14:58; 2Co 5:1; Col 2:11) by merely adding α privative to the old verbal χειροποιητος (Ac 7:48; Eph 2:11), possibly first in Mr 14:58 where both words occur concerning the temple. In 2Co 5:1 the reference is to the resurrection body. The feminine form of this compound adjective is the same as the masculine.

In the putting off ( εν τη απεκδυσε ). As if an old garment (the fleshly body). From απεκδυομα (Col 2:15, possibly also coined by Paul) and occurring nowhere else so far as known. The word is made in a perfectly normal way by the perfective use of the two Greek prepositions ( απο, εκ ), "a resource available for and generally used by any real thinker writing Greek" (Moulton and Milligan, Vocabulary). Paul had as much right to mint a Greek compound as any one and surely no one ever had more ideas to express and more power in doing it.

Of Christ ( του Χριστου ). Specifying genitive, the kind of circumcision that belongs to Christ, that of the heart.