“But in this will we consent unto you: If ye will be as we be, that every male of you be circumcised;”
We will enter into an agreement with you on one condition only: that you become like us by circumcising all your males. The condition presented as the only barrier to agreement is the condition designed to create the vulnerability necessary for the attack of verse 25. The application: conditions presented as sincere requirements of covenant membership can be deployed as instruments of violence.
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