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It happened on the eighth day, that they came to circumcise the child; and they would have called him Zacharias, after the name of the father.
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The Covenant on the Eighth Day
Commentators unanimously affirm that circumcising the child on the eighth day was a direct act of obedience to the Old Testament covenant established in Genesis 17. This was not just a medical procedure but a significant religious and social ceremony, akin to Christian infant baptism, where family and community gathered to formally welcome the child into God's covenant people.
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18th Century
Presbyterian
On the eighth day. This was the day on which it was required to circumcise children (Genesis 21:4).
And they called …
Would have called (εκαλουν). Conative imperfect, tried to call.
19th Century
Anglican
They came to circumcise the child.—The day of circumcision, as the admission of the child into God’s covenant with his pe…
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These verses give the impression that no one in the neighborhood knew of Elizabeth’s pregnancy. On one level, the “joy” is over Elizabeth’s emergen…
16th Century
Protestant
And they called him Zacharias, by the name of his father. We know that names were originally given to men, either from some occurrence, or…
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
And it came to pass that on the eighth day The precise time fixed in the normal restitution of the ordinance of circumcision, …
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