Circumcision
event · 4 works · 4 mentions · 5 anchored passages
also in the atlas: circumcision the idea
circumcision · circumcised · the law of circumcision · to be circumcised
in the texts
The Rights of War and Peace
The covenantal rite required of Abraham's posterity, discussed as distinct in scope from the wider Mosaic law.
Yet with this difference that the Israelites alone were bound by the Mosaic Law, but the whole posterity of Abraham by the law of circumcision.
Applied Eugenics
Ritual mutilation practiced across generations, cited as evidence that mutilations are not heritable.
It may be said without hesitation that mutilations are not heritable, no matter how many generations undergo them.
De Carne Christi
The Jewish ritual act performed on the infant Christ, cited twice as part of the disputed infancy and humiliation narrative.
to be circumcised or to be nailed up?
Nay, let the infant not be circumcised, lest he feel pain, nor be carried to the temple, lest he burden his parents with the cost of an offering, nor be handed into the arms of Simeon, lest the old man, about to die, be made sad thereby.
De Carnis Resurrectione
The ritual cutting away of flesh, cited via the apostle as evidence that skin is a removable tunic.
Hence the apostle too, calling circumcision a stripping-off of the flesh, affirmed the skin to be a tunic.