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Philippians 3:2 (WEB)
Beware of the dogs; beware of the evil workers; beware of the false circumcision.

Fathers and councils · 9

Tertullian, An Answer to the Jews Chapter 3
“…God of Jacob,”—not of Esau, the former son, but of Jacob, the second; that is, of our “people,” whose “mount” is Christ, “præcised without concisors’ hands, filling every land,” shown in the book of Daniel.” — editor's note: Perhaps an allusion to Phil. iii. 1, 2.
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Cyprian of Carthage, Epistles Letter 54
“Their concision is to be mourned and lamented, whom the devil so blinds, that, without considering the eternal punishments of Gehenna, they endeavour to imitate the coming of Antichrist, who is now approaching.” — editor's note: [Phil. iii. 2. The apostle calls the Judaizers a concision, the particle cut off and thrown away in the rite of circumcision; a rejected schism. See Joel iii.…
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Ambrose of Milan, Exposition of the Christian Faith I.7Book I
“For it is written: “Hedge thine ears about with thorns;” and again: “Beware of dogs, beware of evil workers;” and yet again: “A man that is an heretic, avoid after the first reproof, knowing that such an one is fallen, and is in sin, being condemned of his own judgment.”” — editor's note: Phil. iii. 2.
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Ambrose of Milan, On the Holy Spirit II.5Book II
“And since he knew the Spirit to be the Creator, he teaches that we ought to serve Him, saying: “Beware of the dogs, beware of the evil workers, beware of the concision, for we are the circumcision who serve the Spirit of God.”” — editor's note: Phil. iii. 2, 3.
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Augustine of Hippo, Expositions on the Psalms Psalm 68
“Not those dogs, whereof saith the Apostle, “Beware of dogs:” but those that eat of the crumbs which fall from the table of their masters.” — editor's note: Philip. iii. 2.
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Basil the Great, Hexaemeron Homily 9
“Hear also, you who belong to the new concision and who, under the appearance of Christianity, strengthen the error of the Jews.” — editor's note: Phil. iii. 2.
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Basil the Great, Letters Letter 28
“Now in season remember the voice of him who when preaching to you used always to say “Beware of dogs, beware of evil workers.”” — editor's note: Phil. iii. 2.
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John Chrysostom, Homilies on Matthew Homily 19
“So Paul also speaks to the Philippians; “Beware of dogs.”” — editor's note: Phil. iii. 2. [“The dogs,” so R.V.—R.]
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JeromeCatena Aurea on Matthew
“Phil. 3:2-3]” — the author cites it
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