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Col 2:11. Καὶ) also. Paul now enumerates the steps in the progress of those, who have become partakers of the fulness of Christ.-περιετμήθητε, ye are circumcised) As circumcision, so baptism, refers to initiation.-περιτομῇ, with the circumcision) of the heart.-ἀχειροποιήτῳ, not made with hands) An epithet very suitable for the New Testament; comp. Eph 2:11; Heb 9:11; Heb 9:24.-ἀπεκδύσει) a word most significant; Col 2:15.-τοῦ σώματος, of the body) This, as a whole, is opposed to the part, uncircumcision: ἀπέκδυσις σώματος, the putting (stripping) off the body, a mild definition of death. It is different therefore from baptism: it is the circumcision of the heart; it is death spiritual, in a good sense, whereas baptism is compared to burial. [Communion with (joint participation in) the death and burial and resurrection of Christ is described in this and the following verse.-V.g.]-τῆς σαρκὸς, of the flesh) There is an apposition between the body of sins and the flesh [not the body of the sins of the flesh, as Engl. Vers., but the body of the sins, that is to say, the flesh].-ἐν τῇ περιτομῇ τοῦ Χριστοῦ) by the circumcision of Christ, which accords with the New Testament; a circumcision, to which that of Moses, in the flesh, gives place.