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Annotatio LXXXV — Genesis 8:21

“The Lord smelled the odor of sweetness.”

Annotatio LXXXV

”The Lord smelled the odor of sweetness.” — Genesis 8:21

Chrysostom, homily 27 on Genesis, expounding this, seems to assert that Circumcision, in the old law, conferred absolutely nothing to justice and the salvation of the soul1 — the opposite of which Augustine, with the rest of the theologians, holds. See below, in the centuries, chapter 17, Annotation 96.

Footnotes

  1. Left margin: Whether circumcision conferred anything to the soul’s salvation. (Circuncisio an aliquid contulerit ad animae salutem.) ↩