Cutting, a term of reproach, applied to certain Judaizing teachers at Philippi, as mere cutters of the flesh; in contrast with the true circumcision, those who were created anew in Christ Jesus unto righteousness and true holiness, Php 3:2.

(Gr. katatome; i.e., "mutilation"), a term used by Paul contemptuously of those who were zealots for circumcision (Php 3:2). Instead of the warning, "Beware of the circumcision" (peritome) i.e., of the party who pressed on Gentile converts the necessity of still observing that ordinance, he says, "Beware of the concision;" as much as to say, "This circumcision which they vaunt of is in Christ only as the gashings and mutilations of idolatrous heathen."

A name applied contemptuously by S. Paul (Php 3:2) to the merely fleshly circumcision (Gr. katatom

This is a 'cutting, mutilation,' ????????, in contrast to the true circumcision, which is a cutting off. It is a term of contempt for the Judaising teachers. Php 3:2.