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|txtha=(ας, ἡ (a [[word]] [[unknown]] to the Greeks, [[who]] used ἡ [[ἀκροποσθία]] and τό ἀκροπόσθιον, from [[πόσθη]] i. e. membrum [[virile]]. Accordingly it is [[likely]] [[that]] [[τήν]] ποσθην of the Greeks [[was]] [[pronounced]] [[τήν]] βύστην by the Alexandrians, and [[ἀκροβυστία]] said [[instead]] of ἀκροπόσθια — i. e. τό [[ἄκρον]] τῆς πόσθης; cf. the [[acute]] remarks of Fritzsche, Commentary on Romans , vol. i., 136, [[together]] [[with]] the [[opinion]] [[which]] Winer prefers 99 (94) (and Cremer, 3te Anti. [[under]] the [[word]])), in the Sept. the equivalent of עָרְלָה the prepuce, the [[skin]] [[covering]] the glans penis;<br /><b class="num">a.</b> [[properly]]: ἐν [[ἀκροβυστία]] ὤν having the foreskin (Tertullian praeputiatus), uncircumcised i. e. Gentile, ἐν [[ἀκροβυστία]], [[namely]], ὤν, δἰ ἀκροβυστίας, ἡ ἐν τῇ [[ἀκροβυστία]] [[πίστις]] the [[faith]] [[which]] [[one]] has [[while]] he is uncircumcised, having the foreskin is equiv. to a Gentile: ἡ ἐκ φύσεως [[ἀκροβυστία]], [[one]] uncircumcised by [[birth]] or a Gentile, opposed to a [[Jew]] [[who]] shows [[himself]] a Gentile in [[character]], [[εὐαγγέλιον]] τῆς ἀκροβυστίας gospel to be preached to the Gentiles, ἡ [[ἀκροβυστία]] τῆς σαρκός (opposed to the [[περιτομή]] [[ἀχειροποίητος]] or [[regeneration]], [[σάρξ]] were [[not]] [[yet]] [[extinct]]," B. D. [[under]] the [[word]] Smith's Bible Dictionary, Circumcision)).

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