having the foreskin, uncircumcised

a Gentile

a condition in which the corrupt desires rooted in the flesh were not yet extinct

but

1. nevertheless, notwithstanding

2. an objection

3. an exception

4. a restriction

5. nay, rather, yea, moreover

6. forms a transition to the cardinal matter

to see

1. to perceive with the eyes

2. to perceive by any of the senses

3. to perceive, notice, discern, discover

4. to see

   1. i.e. to turn the eyes, the mind, the attention to anything

   2. to pay attention, observe

   3. to see about something

      1. i.e. to ascertain what must be done about it

   4. to inspect, examine

   5. to look at, behold

5. to experience any state or condition

6. to see i.e. have an interview with, to visit

to know

1. to know of anything

2. to know, i.e. get knowledge of, understand, perceive

   1. of any fact

   2. the force and meaning of something which has definite meaning

   3. to know how, to be skilled in

3. to have regard for one, cherish, pay attention to (1Th. 5:12)

a reward for good tidings

good tidings

1. the glad tidings of the kingdom of God soon to be set up, and subsequently also of Jesus the Messiah, the founder of this kingdom. After the death of Christ, the term comprises also the preaching of (concerning) Jesus Christ as having suffered death on the cross to procure eternal salvation for the men in the kingdom of God, but as restored to life and exalted to the right hand of God in heaven, thence to return in majesty to consummate the kingdom of God

2. the glad tidings of salvation through Christ

3. the proclamation of the grace of God manifest and pledged in Christ

4. the gospel

5. as the messianic rank of Jesus was proved by his words, his deeds, and his death, the narrative of the sayings, deeds, and death of Jesus Christ came to be called the gospel or glad tidings

according as

1. just as, even as

2. in proportion as, in the degree that

since, seeing that, agreeably to the fact that

when, after that

this, that, these, etc. Only significant renderings other than "the" counted

to see with the eyes

to see with the mind, to perceive, know

to see, i.e. become acquainted with by experience, to experience

to see, to look to

1. to take heed, beware

2. to care for, pay heed to

I was seen, showed myself, appeared

that, because, since

circumcised

1. the act or rite of circumcision, "they of the circumcision" is a term used of the Jews

   1. of Christians gathered from among the Jews

   2. the state of circumcision

2. metaph.

   1. of Christians separated from the unclean multitude and truly consecrated to God

   2. the extinction of passions and the removal of spiritual impurity

Peter = "a rock or a stone"

1. one of the twelve disciples of Jesus

to think to be true, to be persuaded of, to credit, place confidence in

1. of the thing believed

   1. to credit, have confidence

2. in a moral or religious reference

   1. used in the NT of the conviction and trust to which a man is impelled by a certain inner and higher prerogative and law of soul

   2. to trust in Jesus or God as able to aid either in obtaining or in doing something: saving faith

   3. mere acknowledgment of some fact or event: intellectual faith

to entrust a thing to one, i.e. his fidelity

1. to be intrusted with a thing

on the contrary, contrariwise