Deuteronomy 10:16

Circumcise the foreskin of your heart The same metaphor in Jeremiah 4:4 (cp. Deuteronomy 9:25); whether it is original to the prophet or to D is impossible to determine. In view of the style of Jeremiah's earlier discourses, in which abrupt and unrelated metaphors are frequently conjoined, and of the secondary character of these verses before us, the presumption is that the metaphor is here derived from Jeremiah. -Wohl bei Jeremias ursprünglich," Wellh. Comp. Hex.193. Steuernagel states the converse opinion.

stiffnecked See Deuteronomy 9:6 Sg. and 13 Pl.