Jesus answered: 'Verily I say unto you that a dog is better than an
uncircumcised man.' Then were the disciples sorrowful, saying: 'Hard are
these words, and who shall be able to receive them?'
Jesus answered: 'If ye consider, O foolish ones, what the dog doth, that hath
no reason, for the service of his master, ye will find my saying to be true. Tell
me, doth the dog guard
the house of his master, and expose his life against
the robber? Yea, assuredly. But what receiveth he? Many blows
and injuries
with little bread, and he always showeth to his master a joyful countenance.
Is this true?'
'True it is, O master,' answered the disciples.
Then said Jesus: 'Consider now how much
God hath given to man, and ye
shall see how unrighteous he is in not observing the covenant of God made
with Abraham his servant. Remember that which David said to Saul king of
Israel, against Goliath the Philistine: "My lord,"
said David, "while thy servant
was keeping thy servant's flock there came the wolf, the bear, and the lion
and seized thy servant's sheep: whereupon thy servant went and slew them,
rescuing the sheep. And what is this uncircumcised one but like unto them?
Therefore will thy servant go in the name of the Lord
God of Israel, and will
slay this unclean one that blasphemeth the holy people of God."
Then said the disciples: 'Tell us, O master, for what reason man must needs
be circumcised?"
Jesus answered: 'Let it suffice you that God
hath commanded it to Abraham,
saying: "Abraham, circumcise thy foreskin and that of all thy house, for this
is a covenant between me and thee for ever."'
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