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1743 |
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De fide catholica contra Iudaeos (601 - 636) Isidore of Seville |
| Quotation |
Accipe ergo primum causam circumcisionis. Quia enim ex semine Abrahae secundum carnem futurus erat Christus, in quo cunctarum gentium fuerat benedictio repromissa, et ab Abraham usque ad Christum multa erant saecula post futura,
praevidens Deus ne genus Abraham reliquis gentibus misceretur, et paulatim propago ejus fieret
incerta, populum Judaicum circumcisionis signo notavit, ut viventes inter Aegyptios atque Assyrios,
inter Babylonios, sive Chaldeos, hoc signaculo ab iis, vel a caeteris gentibus nationibusque
distinguerentur. |
| Translation |
First, take the reason for circumcision. Namely because Christ was to be, according to the flesh, from the seed of Abraham, in whom the blessing of all nations was promised, and there were to be many ages between Abraham and Christ, which God foreseeing, and wanting to prevent the race of Abraham mixing with the rest of the nations so that his generation should be uncertain, he made the people of the Jews known by the sign of the circumcision, so that if they lived among the Egyptians or the Assyrians, among the Babylonians or the Chaldeans, they should be distinguished by this sign form them, or from any other nations whatsoever. |
| Quotation source |
Lib. 2, Cap. 16, Par. 1, Col. 524 (lin. 36) |
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