Life and mission of Jesus
The Circumcision of Christ
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“On the eighth day, when it was time to circumcise the child, he was named Jesus, the name the angel had given him before he was conceived.” Armia Elkatcha shows the Christ Child laid on the altar, between the priests of the Old Covenant, Saint Joseph and the Virgin Mary.
References: Luke 2:21; Genesis 17:10-12; Galatians 4:4-5; Colossians 2:11; Matthew 1:21.
The Coptic Church celebrates the Circumcision of the Lord among its minor feasts of the Lord, eight days after the Nativity. This first shedding of blood already points to the Cross: the one who receives the Law is the one who fulfils it.
Further reading
On Coptipedia, the Coptic encyclopedia (in French)
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