Or maybe physical uncircumcision was about uncommitment, distrust, and hiding the source of one's "seed" .
The physical foreskin hides a part of the man that in righteousness only his spouse would normally see, the part out of which his physical "seeds" happen to come.
Our dissimulating masks hide the part of us, our heart, out of which our spiritual "seeds" happen to come. Circumcision lays bare that source. Circumcision is about a covenant of honesty/truthfulness regarding our motives (seeds) for our actions and words (fruit). Uncleanness and sinfulness and shame are not taken away by circumcision. Circumcision is a sign that we believe they have been already taken away (by God's grace), and we can trust in that grace so that there is no need to hide our heart from God any more.
The physical foreskin hides a part of the man that in righteousness only his spouse would normally see, the part out of which his physical "seeds" happen to come.
Our dissimulating masks hide the part of us, our heart, out of which our spiritual "seeds" happen to come. Circumcision lays bare that source. Circumcision is about a covenant of honesty/truthfulness regarding our motives (seeds) for our actions and words (fruit). Uncleanness and sinfulness and shame are not taken away by circumcision. Circumcision is a sign that we believe they have been already taken away (by God's grace), and we can trust in that grace so that there is no need to hide our heart from God any more.
At that time the Lord said unto Joshua, Make thee sharp knives, and circumcise again the children of Israel the second time.
And Joshua made him sharp knives, and circumcised the children of Israel at the hill of the foreskins.
And this is the cause why Joshua did circumcise: All the people that came out of Egypt, that were males, even all the men of war, died in the wilderness by the way, after they came out of Egypt.
Now all the people that came out were circumcised: but all the people that were born in the wilderness by the way as they came forth out of Egypt, them they had not circumcised.
For the children of Israel walked forty years in the wilderness, till all the people that were men of war, which came out of Egypt, were consumed, because they obeyed not the voice of the Lord: unto whom the Lord sware that he would not shew them the land, which the Lord sware unto their fathers that he would give us, a land that floweth with milk and honey.
And their children, whom he raised up in their stead, them Joshua circumcised: for they were uncircumcised, because they had not circumcised them by the way.
And it came to pass, when they had done circumcising all the people, that they abode in their places in the camp, till they were whole.
And the Lord said unto Joshua, This day have I rolled away the reproach of Egypt from off you. Wherefore the name of the place is called Gilgal unto this day.
Reproach can mean shame or disgrace.
Colossians 2:8 - 15
Beware lest any man spoil you through philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the rudiments of the world, and not after Christ.
For in him dwelleth all the fulness of the Godhead bodily.
And ye are complete in him, which is the head of all principality and power:
In whom also ye are circumcised with the circumcision made without hands, in putting off the body of the sins of the flesh by the circumcision of Christ:
Buried with him in baptism, wherein also ye are risen with him through the faith of the operation of God, who hath raised him from the dead.
And you, being dead in your sins and the uncircumcision of your flesh, hath he quickened together with him, having forgiven you all trespasses;
Blotting out the handwriting of ordinances that was against us, which was contrary to us, and took it out of the way, nailing it to his cross;
And having spoiled principalities and powers, he made a shew of them openly, triumphing over them in it.
Association of sins and uncircumcision.