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Therefore, the Scythians mentioned in the preceding verse — in Colossians 3:11 — must be “uncircumcised” Israelites, who at one time were “alienated” from God and Israel proper, but are now accepted once again among the “chosen ones of God, holy and beloved” under Christ, as promised in the prophecy of Jeremiah:
“Behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel, and with the house of Judah: Not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day that I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt; which my covenant they brake, although I was an husband unto them, saith the LORD: But this shall be the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel; After those days, saith the LORD, I will put my law in their inward parts, and write it in their hearts; and will be their God, and they shall be my people.”
-–Jeremiah 31:31-33
However, even if this is true — that Paul counts the Scythians among the lost tribes of the House of Israel — how do we know that the Scythians are among the ancestors of the European peoples?
The Celts who originally settled Scotland, for example, knew they were descendants of the ancient Scythians — as attested to in their 1320 Declaration of Arbroath:
