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Become uncircumcised (ἐπισπάσθω)
The reference is to the process of restoring a circumcised person to his natural condition by a surgical operation. See Josephus, “Antiquities,” 12:5, 1; 1 Macc. 1:15; Smith's “Dictionary of the Bible,” Article Circumcision; Celsus, “De Re Medica,” cited in Wetstein with other passages. See, also, Edwards' note on this passage.