| Jeremiah 9:26
| Upon Egypt, and upon Juda, and upon Edom, and upon the children of Ammon, and upon Moab, and upon all that have their hair polled round, that dwell in the desert: for all the nations are uncircumcised in the flesh, but all the house of Israel are uncircumcised in the heart.
| Egypt. the uncircumcised shall be punished as well as Juda, if they transgress. Only the Jewish nation properly observed the right of circumcision generally, or at first. Others imitated them, but with various ceremonies. (Calmet, Diss.) (Ezechiel 31:18., and Judith 14:6.) --- Hyrcan obliged the Idumeans to receive circumcision. (Josephus, Jewish Antiquities 13:17.) --- Round. The Arabs, etc., Leviticus 19:27. (Calmet) --- Heart. All then became guilty, Romans 2:25. (Menochius) --- Neither these nations nor Juda was circumcised in heart, and of course were hypocrites. (Worthington)
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