circumcision
idea · 2 works · 5 mentions · 8 anchored passages
also in the atlas: Circumcision the event
a knife of stone · circumcised · the Jewish calendar · uncircumcision
in the texts
Adversus Marcionem
The rite of circumcision, used figuratively for the transformative effect of Christ's precepts.
and this not through Moses, that is, not through the discipline of the law, but through Jesus, through the grace of the gospel, when we have been circumcised with a knife of stone, that is, with the precepts of Christ — for Christ is a rock — therefore that man, who was being prepared in the images of this mystery, was inaugurated also with the figure of the Lord's name, surnamed Jesus.
"Make for yourselves a new freshness, and sow not among thorns, and be circumcised in the foreskin of your heart.
Likewise, if false apostles too had crept in, their character also is published — claiming circumcision and the Jewish calendar.
The Histories
A distinctively Egyptian bodily practice, said to have spread from Egypt to other peoples, explained by the Egyptians as a matter of ritual cleanliness.
They practise circumcision for cleanliness' sake;
The Egyptians and those who have learned it from them are the only people who practise circumcision.
But as to the Egyptians and Ethiopians themselves, I cannot say which nation learned it from the other;