Circumcision Is a Sacrificial Idea

There's something to be said for rituals of seriousness, and i think this is one of them. The fitness of circumcision to be of entering into a covenant, and especially into one to which children were to be admitted, consisted in its being a representation of a new birth,. by putting off the old man and the dedication of the new man unto holiness. It's like a baptism. And o course, baptism is returned to the pre cosmogonic chaos, cause that's what the water indicates. And a return to the source of life, and then the renewal that comes along with it. They had been born again, and so must again be named. Though women could not indeed