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What the Fathers say
Eastern Fathers
John Chrysostom
"And he gave him the covenant of circumcision: and so he begat Isaac." Here he lets himself down to lower matters. "And circumcised him on the eighth day: and Isaac begat Jacob, and Jacob the twelve patriarchs." Here he seems to hint now at the type. And observe, how, while he seems to concede something to circumcision, he in fact allows it nothing; since the Promise was before it, and it followed after.
Theophylact of Ohrid
The promises are given to the descendants, while the calamities are given to the ancestors. And the fathers were commanded by the law to circumcise the foreskin because Abraham came out of the land of the Chaldeans; for the Chaldeans, as well as the Medes and Persians, were permitted by the customs of their fathers to marry their mothers and sisters. Thus, Abraham is circumcised as a sign that he renounces carnal intermixing and rejects unlawful marriages between relatives. …
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