Concision

Concision is a sharp Pauline coinage for an over-zealous insistence on circumcision, used once as a term of warning in Philippians.

A Warning Against the Concision

Paul piles three warnings against the same group: "Beware of the dogs, beware of the evil workers, beware of the concision" (Php 3:2). The triple repetition aims at teachers pressing circumcision on Gentile believers; rather than name them by the honorable term, the text substitutes a near-homophone that reduces the rite to a mere cutting.