| http://www.w3.org/ns/prov#value | - It seems to have been the practice among the Jews for children to be circumcised at home: nor was a priest the necessary or ordinary minister, but the father, mother, or any other person could perform the ceremony, as we see in the time of Abraham (Gen. xvii.; Acts vii.) and of the Maccabees (1 Mac. 1.) St. Epiphanius (H??r. 20.) Whence F. Avala, in his curious work entitled Pietor Christianus, pr
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