This too I could therefore prove to you, Gentlemen, I said, that the eighth day had a certain mystical meaning which was proclaimed by God by these means, rather than the seventh. But that I may not seem to digress to other subjects I cry aloud: Understand that the blood of that circumcision is rendered useless, and we have believed the blood that bringeth salvation. Now have another Disposition and another Law gone forth from Sion.
Jesus Christ circumcises all them who will, with knives of stone, as was proclaimed from of old, that there may be a righteous nation, a people keeping faith, apprehending truth and keeping peace.
Come with me all who fear God, who wish to see the good things of Jerusalem. Come, let us go in the light of the Lord, for He has set His people free, even the House of Israel. Come, all ye nations, let us be gathered together at Jerusalem, which is no longer attacked because of the iniquities of the peoples. For I became manifest to them that seek Me not; I was found of them that ask not after Me, He cries aloud by Isaiah.
I said, Behold I am here, to nations which called not upon My name. I stretched out My hands the whole day to a disobedient and gainsaying people, to those who go in a way not good, but after their sins. It is a people which provoketh Me to My face.