There remains Colossians 2.11-12,
which starts with a spiritualizing of circumcision as a way of describing the
Christian experience of Christ’s redemption, and then refers to the baptismal
incorporation of Christians into Christ’s spiritually circumcising atonement.
The correspondence is not between two rites, of circumcision and baptism, but
between the Jewish rite and the divine work of spiritual circumcision
accomplished by Christ. ‘The circumcision of Christ’s is the atoning death of
Christ. (David F. Wright, “The Origins of Infant Baptism—Child Believers’
Baptism?” in Infant Baptism in Historical Perspective: Collected Studies [Studies
in Christian History and Thought; Milton Keynes, U.K.: Paternoster, 2007], 19)