Verse 10
10. This is my covenant, which ye shall keep That is, this is the sign or seal of the covenant which it will be your place to observe . Hence Stephen said: “He gave him the covenant of circumcision . ” Acts 7:8.
Every man child among you shall be circumcised Here was a positive commandment, as direct and uncompromising as the absolute prohibition of the fruit of the tree of knowledge . Genesis 2:17.
Obedience must now supplement faith. “Circumcision was confined to the male sex. This was neither owing to the physical nor to the ethical state of woman, but to the dependent position which she occupied in antiquity. Circumcision implies as much the humiliation as the exaltation of man, expressing as it did both his natural incapacity for being a member of the covenant, and his special divine calling in that direction. The absence of circumcision does not convey that these lessons and privileges applied not to woman also, but that she was dependent, and that her position in the natural and covenant life was not without the husband, but in and with him, not in her capacity as woman, but as wife and mother.” Kurtz.
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