Circumcision of a chronic ulcer consists in making a circular incision around it through the normal skin.
From Corning we learn that the ancient Assyrians alleviated and even entirely prevented the pain incident to circumcision by compressing the veins in the neck.
Blood shed at circumcisionand subincision, uses of, i.
Daira or Mahadev Mohammedans in Mysore, mock rite of circumcisionamong the, iv.
Circumcision Day, the 1st of January, Pope of Fools on, ix.
Wyse, William, as to circumcision in the Old Testament, i.
Gaboon, circumcision among the dwarf tribes of the, i.
Moses, himself a child of the covenant, had neglected the circumcision of his own first-born; and so he had been unfaithful to the covenant of Abraham.
Ebers has looked for an explanation of this gloss, in the rite of circumcision (Ægypten u.
The written law, though given fully only through Moses, began with Abraham, upon whom circumcision was enjoined as a sacrament and sign of separation from the heathen peoples.
These were the rite of circumcision and the observance of the Sabbath.
I do not mean that circumcisionhad not been practised, nor the Sabbath observed, in times previous to Ezra, but that these became especially prominent after his time as the sine qua non of Judaism, essentials to be maintained at any cost.
In Christ Jesus neither circumcision availeth anything, nor uncircumcision, but a new creature.
They of the circumcision who believed were amazed, as many as came with Peter, because the gift of the Holy Spirit was also poured out on the nations.
And therefore St. Paul says to the Romans: "For he is not a Jew which is one outwardly; neither is that circumcision which is outward in the flesh.
But he is a Jew which is one inwardly; and circumcision is that of the heart, in the spirit, and not in the letter; whose praise is not of men, but of God.
Circumcision should be done, especially in the young.
The child should be examined by a doctor; circumcision will often effect a cure in boys; or pin worms may be the cause of the trouble; a stone in the bladder, or any trouble that makes him nervous, or it may be due to habit.
It might be mentioned, however, that Rake of Trinidad, has performed circumcision 16 times, usually for phimosis due to leprous tuberculation of the prepuce.
Labat has found traces of circumcision and excision of nymphae in mummies.
Herodotus remarks that the Egyptians practiced circumcision rather as a sanitary measure than as a rite.
Spencer mentions that the Abyssinians take a phallic trophy by circumcision from the enemy's dead body.
Circumcision is practiced in nearly every portion of the world, and by various races, sometimes being a civil as well as a religious custom.
It was also said that the Egyptian women practiced circumcision on their females at the age of seven or eight, the time chosen being when the Nile was in flood.
Voltaire stated that the Hebrews borrowed circumcision from the Egyptians; but the Jews claimed that the Phoenicians borrowed this rite from the Israelites.
So great importance do I attach to the sign of circumcision also in this connection, that I am persuaded that it is sufficient by itself to maintain the separate existence of the nation for ever.
Accordingly, it became along with circumcision the symbol that bound together the Jewish diaspora; thus already in the Priestly Code the two institutions are the general distinguishing marks of religion [)WT Genesis xvii.
Priestly Code institutes the circumcision of male children on the eighth day after birth.
In other words, the circumcisionof male infants is here explained as a milder substitute for the original circumcision of young men before marriage.
The Mosaic cultus was abolished, Sabbath observance and the rite of circumcision prohibited, all copies of the Torah confiscated and burnt.
Judah Aristobulus, the son of Hyrcanus, who reigned for only one year, was the first to assume the Greek title of royalty; Ituraea was subdued by him, and circumcision forced upon the inhabitants.
Shechem has to submit to circumcisionbefore marriage.
These qualities are singularly conspicuous in a Circumcision painted for the church della Pieta, esteemed by Ribera, Giordano, and Solimene, one of the first pictures in Naples.
He is in general an imitator of Barocci, as in the picture of the Circumcision in the church of Loreto, in the Espousals of the Virgin in the Duomo in Ancona, and in a Madonna belonging to the Counts Leopardi at Osimo.
There is great elegance and good disposition in the picture of the Circumcision in the Gesu, and the Ascension in Ara Coeli displays an intimate knowledge of art.
The Circumcision in the Gesu Vecchio, where Parrino traces the portrait of the artist and his wife,[110] the adoration of the Magi at S.
Circumcision was to be performed on the eighth day after birth, even though such should fall on the Sabbath.
And shall not uncircumcision which is by nature, if it fulfil the law, judge thee, who by the letter and circumcision dost transgress the law?
For circumcision verily profiteth, if thou keep the law: but if thou be a breaker of the law, thy circumcision is made uncircumcision.
Cometh this blessedness then upon the circumcision only, or upon the uncircumcision also?
For in Jesus Christ neither circumcision availeth anything, nor uncircumcision; but faith which worketh by love.
For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision availeth anything, nor uncircumcision, but a new creature.
Circumcision is nothing, and uncircumcision is nothing, but the keeping of the commandments of God.
Yes, of the Gentiles also: seeing it is one God, which shall justify the circumcision by faith, and uncircumcision through faith.
In Jesus Christ neither circumcision availeth anything, nor uncircumcision; but faith which worketh by love.
It had been shown long before by the institution of circumcision “that no one could reach God and be saved by works, but only by faith.
The sermon in which the singularly outspoken statement concerning circumcision occurs is also found in the postils.
And Paul saith, Circumcision is nothing, and uncircumcision is nothing, but the keeping of the commandments of God.
So that it is very clear, that it is circumcision and the customs that is here called the law of Moses, which the Gentiles were commanded not to keep.
For the law of circumcision was not more expressly confined to the fleshly seed of Abraham, than was the law of the Sabbath to the seventh day of the week.
We can see no more fitness in applying the law of the Sabbath to the first day of the week, than in applying the law of circumcision to the subjects of baptism.
So also the rite of circumcision is not so much as alluded to from a little after the death of Moses, till the days of Jeremiah, a period of eight hundred years or more.
The Dieri also imagine that the foreskins taken from lads at circumcisionhave a great power of producing rain.
This is a most glorious passage, unfolding to us the true idea of what circumcision was meant to typify.
And that in Christe Iesus / neyther circumcision auaileth any thing at all / nor vncircumcision / but the obseruing of the commaũdements of God / or a new creature.
We reade that Paule vsed ceremonies instituted of Godd / circumcision and sacrifices / but theis men do contend for ceremonies instituted by men.
The Circumcision | The Epiphany takes precedence of Second Sunday after Christmas.
Also on the Circumcision the colour would be White.
And they of the circumcision which believed were astonished, as many as came with Peter, because that on the gentiles also was poured out the gift of the Holy Ghost.
If a man receive circumcision on the sabbath day, that the law of Moses may not be broken: are you angry at me, because I have healed the whole man on the sabbath day?
Therefore, Moses gave you circumcision (not because it is of Moses, but of the fathers): and on the sabbath day you circumcise a man.
That false doctrine, destructive to the doctrine of Christ in his gospel, did arise in the Church, viz: That circumcisionand keeping of the ceremonial law of Moses was necessary to salvation, ver.
Thus circumcision is abrogated of divine right, by Christ's act, instituting baptism instead thereof, Col.
