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Luke 1:59

The Pulpit Commentary · Joseph S. Exell and contributors · Public Domain

On the eighth day they came to circumcise the child. This was always, among the Hebrew people, a solemn day of rejoicing; it resembled in some particulars our baptismal gatherings. Relatives were invited to be present, as witnesses that the child had been formally incorporated into the covenant.

It was, too, the time when the name which the newly born was to bear through life was given him.

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