Colossians 2:11 (WEB)
In him you were also circumcised with a circumcision not made with hands, in the putting off of the body of the sins of the flesh, in the circumcision of Christ,
Catechism · 1
“This sign prefigures that "circumcision of Christ" which is Baptism.” — Catechism footnote: Cf. Col 2:11-13.
Fathers and councils · 16
Irenaeus of Lyons
“For “we,” says the apostle, “have been circumcised with the circumcision made without hands.”” — editor's note: Col. ii. 11.
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Jerome
“…then are true, whatsoever are chaste, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things pertain to purity, let us join ourselves to these, let us follow these.” — editor's note: Coloss. ii. 11; iii. 1 sq.
Read the whole comment“And again in the same Epistle: “In whom ye were circumcised with a circumcision made without hands in the putting off of the body of the flesh.”” — editor's note: Col. ii. 11.
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Cyril of Jerusalem
“…unto God in the foreskin of your heart: and according to the Apostle, in the circumcision of Christ, having been buried with Him in baptism, and the rest.” — editor's note: Col. ii. 11, 12.
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Catena Aurea on Luke
- Cyril of AlexandriaCatena Aurea on Luke
“(Col. 2:11.)” — the author cites it
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Basil the Great
“Baptism then symbolically signifies the putting off of the works of the flesh; as the apostle says, ye were “circumcised with the circumcision made without hands, in putting off the body of the sins of the flesh by the circumcision of Christ; buried with him in baptism.”” — editor's note: Col. ii. 11, 12.
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Augustine of Hippo
“As the same apostle also, when he says, “In putting off the body of the flesh,” certainly did not intend two things, as though flesh were one, and the body of the flesh another; but because body is the name of many things that have no…” — editor's note: Col. ii. 11
Read the whole comment“Certainly they must be warned, since they now see that the Holy Spirit is called the gift of God, that when they hear of “the gift of the Holy Spirit,” they should recognize therein that mode of speech which is found in the words, “In the spoiling of the body of the flesh.”” — editor's note: Col. ii. 11
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Tertullian
“Hence the apostle, when he call circumcision “a putting off (or spoliation) of the flesh,” affirmed the skin to be a coat or tunic.” — editor's note: Col. ii. 11.
Read the whole comment“And so to the Law presently had to succeed the Word of God introducing the spiritual circumcision.” — editor's note: Rom. ii. 28, 29; Phil. iii. 3; Col. ii. 11.
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Hilary of Poitiers
“…it out of the way, nailing it to the Cross; and having put off the flesh He made a show of powers openly, triumphing over them through confidence in Himself.” — editor's note: Col. ii. 8–15.
Read the whole comment“…of Christ, having been buried with Him in baptism, wherein ye were also raised with Him through faith in the working of God, who raised Him from the dead.” — editor's note: Col. ii. 11, 12.
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Gregory of Nazianzus
“…put on the New; and that as we died in Adam, so we might live in Christ, being born with Christ and crucified with Him and buried with Him and rising with Him.” — editor's note: Col. ii. 11.
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Hippolytus of Rome
“(In this way the soul) would triumph by means of this (body) over principalities and powers, and would not be found naked, but would, instead of that flesh, assume the (other) body, which had been represented in the water when he was being baptized.” — editor's note: Col. ii. 11, 14, 15.
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Clement of Alexandria
““In Christo autem circumcisi estis, circumcisione non manu facta, in exspoliatione corporis carnis, in circumcisione Christi.” — editor's note: Col. ii. 11.
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Cyprian of Carthage
“Paul also, to the Colossians: “Ye are circumcised with the circumcision not made with hands in the putting off of the flesh, but with the circumcision of Christ.”” — editor's note: Col. ii. 11.
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Cross-references · 17
Cited together in To His Wife I.2.
Cited together in To His Wife I.2.
Cited together in On the Resurrection of the Flesh Chapter 7.
Cited together in On the Holy Trinity XIV.16.
Cited together in Three Books of Testimonies Against the Jews I.9.
Cited together in Three Books of Testimonies Against the Jews I.9.
Cited together in Three Books of Testimonies Against the Jews I.9.
Cited together in Three Books of Testimonies Against the Jews I.9.
Cited together in The Refutation of All Heresies VIII.3.
Cited together in The Refutation of All Heresies VIII.3.
Cited together in Catechism §527 and 1 other place.
Cited together in The Refutation of All Heresies VIII.3.
Cited together in The Refutation of All Heresies VIII.3.
Cited together in On the Resurrection of the Flesh Chapter 7 and 1 other place.
Cited together in On the Resurrection of the Flesh Chapter 7.
Cited together in On the Holy Trinity XIV.16.
Cited together in Catechism §527.