"Circumcise" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... The Jews seem to have performed the rite of circumcision with flint implements, for we read in Exodus that Zipporah, the wife of Moses, took a sharp stone for that purpose; and the phrase translated "sharp knives" in Joshua v. 2—"At that time the Lord said unto Joshua, Make thee sharp knives, and circumcise again the children of Israel the second time"—should be translated, as in the marginal reference, knives of flint. To the same ancient widespread habit may doubtless be referred the prohibition, mentioned in Exodus and Deuteronomy, against making an altar in any special place where ...
— Roman Mosaics - Or, Studies in Rome and Its Neighbourhood • Hugh Macmillan
... thy loose raptures, Donne, shall meet with those That do confine Tuning unto the duller line, And sing not but in sanctified prose, How will they, with sharper eyes, The foreskin of thy fancy circumcise, And fear thy wantonness should now begin Example, that hath ceased to be sin! And that fear fans their heat; whilst knowing eyes Will not admire At this strange fire That here is mingled with thy sacrifice, But dare read even thy wanton story As thy confession, ...
— The Art of Letters • Robert Lynd
... parents and children, and husbands and wives. And God not only connived at this appalling iniquity, but, in the covenant of circumcision made with Abraham, expressly mentions it, and confirms the patriarch in it, speaking of those 'bought with his money,' and requiring him to circumcise them. Why, at the very first blush, every Christian will cry out against this statement. To this, however, you must come, or yield your position; and this is only the first utterly incredible and monstrous corollary involved in the assertion that slavery is ...
— Cotton is King and The Pro-Slavery Arguments • Various
... to pass, that on the eighth day they came to circumcise the child; and they called him Zachariah, after the name of his father. (60)And his mother answered and said: Nay; but he shall be called John. (61)And they said to her: There is none of thy kindred that is called by this name. (62)And they made signs to his father, how he would have him called. ...
— The New Testament of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. • Various
... They who are afar off, shall hear and understand what things I have done. And again, Circumcise your ...
— The Forbidden Gospels and Epistles, Complete • Archbishop Wake
... They circumcise the Males at 11 or 12 Years of Age, or older; and many are circumcised at once. This Ceremony is performed with a great deal of Solemnity. There had been no Circumcision for some Years before our being here; and then there was one for Raja Laut's Son. ...
— The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898—Volume 39 of 55 • Various
... brother, how many thousands [or myriads] there are among the Jews of them which have believed; and they are all zealous for the law; and they have been informed concerning thee, that thou teachest all the Jews which are among the Gentiles to forsake Moses, telling them not to circumcise their children, neither to walk after the ...
— Collected Essays, Volume V - Science and Christian Tradition: Essays • T. H. Huxley |
