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Nova Vulgata
Josue 5:3
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Non cum patribus nostris iniit pactum, sed nobiscum qui in præsentiarum sumus, et vivimus.
Fecit quod jusserat Dominus, et circumcidit filios Israël in colle præputiorum.
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
Joshua: Genesis 17:23-27, Matthew 16:24
the hill of the foreskins: or, Gibeah haaraloth
Reciprocal: Genesis 17:11 - the flesh Exodus 4:25 - a sharp stone 1 Samuel 18:25 - foreskins
Gill's Notes on the Bible
And Joshua made him sharp knives, and circumcised the children of Israel,.... Not that Joshua circumcised them himself, any more than he made the knives himself, but he ordered both to be done, and took care that they were done. And as any that had skill might make the knives, so might any circumcise; circumcision was not restrained to any order of men, not to the priests and Levites, but any might perform it; so that though the number to be circumcised was great, it might soon be finished: and this was done
at the hill of the foreskins; as the place was afterward called from hence; these being heaped up one upon another, made a hill of them, as the Jews say y, being covered with dust. This circumcision performed by Joshua, or his orders, was typical of the spiritual circumcision without hands, which those that believe in Jesus, the antitype of Joshua, partake of.
y Pirke Eliezer, ut supra. (c. 29.) Jarchi in loc.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
The hill of the foreskins - i. e. the hill where the foreskins, the emblem of all worldly and carnal affections, were buried. (Compare Colossians 2:11-13; Colossians 3:1-6.)
