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Chapter XVI.—Circumcision given as a
sign, that the Jews might be driven away for their evil deeds done to Christ
and the Christians.
“And God himself proclaimed
by Moses, speaking thus: ‘And circumcise the hardness of your
hearts, and no longer stiffen the neck. For the Lord your God is both
Lord of lords, and a great, mighty, and terrible God, who regardeth not
persons, and taketh not rewards.’1982 And in
Leviticus: ‘Because they have transgressed against Me, and despised
Me, and because they have walked contrary to Me, I also walked contrary
to them, and I shall cut them off in the land of their enemies. Then
shall their uncircumcised heart be turned.1983 For
the circumcision according to the flesh, which is from Abraham, was given
for a sign; that you may be separated from other nations, and from us;
and that you alone may suffer that which you now justly suffer; and that
your land may be desolate, and your cities burned with fire; and that
strangers may eat your fruit in your presence, and not one of you may go
up to Jerusalem.’1984 For you are not
recognised among the rest of men by any other mark than your fleshly
circumcision. For none of you, I suppose, will venture to say that God
neither did nor does foresee the events, which are future, nor
foreordained his deserts for each one. Accordingly, these things have
happened to you in fairness and justice, for you have slain the Just One,
and His prophets before Him; and now you reject those who hope in Him,
and in Him who sent Him—God the Almighty and Maker of all things
—cursing in your synagogues those that believe on Christ. For you
have not the power to lay hands upon us, on account of those who now have
the mastery. But as often as you could, you did so. Wherefore God, by
Isaiah, calls to you, saying, ‘Behold how the righteous
man perished, and no one regards it. For the righteous man is
taken away from before iniquity. His grave shall be in peace, he is taken
away from the midst. Draw near hither, ye lawless children, seed of the
adulterers, and children of the whore. Against whom have you sported
yourselves, and against whom have you opened the mouth, and against whom
have you loosened the tongue?’1985
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