between the language of ‘type,’ ‘anticipation,’ ‘disjunction,’ ‘contrast,’ and ‘distinction’ without any real concept of both the theological relationship and nuanced differences between such terms. In a confined space these words are being asked to do some very heavy lifting. My differing biblical theology of circumcision necessarily leads me to suggest that Salter has not understood how and why Paul perceives of circumcision negatively. Paul does so because those who have it on their bodies are
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