To Cut, To Give, To Establish

Published: Jan. 4, 2020, 3:49 a.m.

In Jesus\u2019 circumcision, God\u2019s own flesh is marked by the sign of the covenant; Jesus' circumcision was the ratification and fulfillment of the prophetic dimension of the rite. Fr. Pat discusses three verbs associated with the Hebrew word Berith (covenant).