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Philippians 3:5

Philippians 3:5 Circumcised the eighth day. As enjoined by the law (Luke 1:59). Of the stock of Israel. Descended from Israel (Jacob), who had the birthright of Isaac and Abraham (Genesis 27:27-29). [Of] the tribe of Benjamin. A tribe descended from the beloved Rachel (Genesis 35:24); a tribe that remained faithful when the Ten Tribes of Israel seceded (I Kings 12:20), the tribe on whose soil Jerusalem and the temple stood (Joshua 18:28 1Ch 9:3). An Hebrew of the Hebrews. Hebrew by race, by religion, by education, and by custom. See II Corinthians 11:22. A Pharisee. A member of the strictest sect in Israel, "after the straitest manner of the sect".

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