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→You and All the rest: added quote of origin of circumcision
It was the earliest opportunity to select a man to take Shem's place. Even though Shem was to outlive him by decades, the much younger man was the better one for the current job. Shem, had been preceded by Enoch in terms of perspective, but not even Shem could claim to understand what it was like to live as a native of that present world. Shem had never been so stupid. So, it had to be a father and his son who, in all innocence and determination, began the next stage of the world.
It was the earliest opportunity to select a man to take Shem's place. Even though Shem was to outlive him by decades, the much younger man was the better one for the current job. Shem, had been preceded by Enoch in terms of perspective, but not even Shem could claim to understand what it was like to live as a native of that present world. Shem had never been so stupid. So, it had to be a father and his son who, in all innocence and determination, began the next stage of the world.
By all this, find it, if you can. Otherwise, it doesn't look like it belongs in all this, or that it could ever amount to anything. It stands out precisely because it doesn't. All the other nations wanted nothing to do with such humble beginnings. And, Egypt itself did so only because Egypt was forced to it by the need to survive: there was no where else for so many people to go to live; only the Nile delta, which they already were so good at keeping; everything else was a bareness which simply could not support them. If you were determined to go out anyway, Godspeed to you. But, if you were determined to stay, then you were not allowed to jeapordize the lives of everyone (including yourself) by simply staying. You had to commit, by a means that would allow you to stay without the fatal risk that had promised to while them all out.
By all this, find it, if you can. Otherwise, it doesn't look like it belongs in all this, or that it could ever amount to anything. It stands out precisely because it doesn't. All the other nations wanted nothing to do with such humble beginnings. And, Egypt itself did so only because Egypt was forced to it by the need to survive: there was no where else for so many people to go to live; only the Nile delta, which they already were so good at keeping; everything else was a bareness which simply could not support them. If you were determined to go out anyway, Godspeed to you. But, if you were determined to stay, then you were not allowed to jeapordize the lives of everyone (including yourself) by simply staying. You had to commit, by a means that would allow you to stay without the fatal risk that had promised to wipe them all out.
For only one people was it an election, and who did not live in the delta. Their land was at the junction of all Earth's trade, and because God, in His wisdom, had selected that land for to be the land of His own nation. In a fallen world only.
For only one people was it an election, and who did not live in the delta. Their land was at the junction of all Earth's trade, and because God, in His wisdom, had selected that land for to be the land of His own nation. In a fallen world only. To wit:
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At some point in the rise of ancient Egypt as a center of civilization, the yearly flood of the Nile basin had spread enough disease organisms, such as through septic contamination, through the waist-high crop water, that the foreskins of a small number of laborers became irreparably infected, requiring the removal of the infected portion of their foreskins. In some cases it became apparent that the removal of the infected portions was required to save the sufferers’ lives, and, through laying with their wives, the lives of their wives.
Thus began the method of circumcision used by the Egyptians: free-hand cutting of the skin at both sides just beyond the infection, the infected portion removed, and the originally distant two ends of skin moved together to heal into one.
By decree of the leader of the Egyptians, the state of these first newly-circumcised men was closely monitored, to see whether and how well they healed, how long the healing might take, and any means to help the process. Also, the causes of the disease were sought out, and were thereby found to be the water-born filth of both man and herd-animal (thus were shepherds banned from approaching Egypt with their flocks; Genesis 46:34). And, thus was learned and recorded the details of the success of the operation upon these men. Women either already were spared infection by not being needed to labor in the flood fields, or were soon removed from such laboring due to the difficulty of successfully treating infection of the more complex female anatomy.
The now-healed circumcised Egyptian men returned to work, and were observed not to become further infected, thus foretelling a preventive means of treatment for the disease.
But, more men of Egypt became so infected, and thus were circumcised. And, since not all Egyptian men were yet circumcised, the disease organism grew so strong that even some circumcised men began to become re-infected. Once it became known that the infection was so spreading, and that the infection could be fatal to both a man and his wife, it became a matter of survival that all men of Egypt be circumcised: there was nowhere else that the masses of Egyptians could live so well, if at all; The surrounding lands were far too sparse of growth to support the masses. Once all men of Egypt were circumcised, it was observed that the disease was stopped.
So became the state of circumcision seen by all in those lands as a sign of an easily prosperous, and thus luxurious, way of life. And, it was required that, for any males from other lands to be accorded the freedom to live-and-work in Egypt, those males first had to submit to circumcision lest the disease be activated again.
Some baby boys had become infected at the height of the outbreak, and were successfully treated by circumcision. Thus became to be observed and recorded the lowest uncomplicating limit of circumcising babies due to the acquisition of the coagulation factor in living blood. And, when it was seen that the cut healed quicker and better in babies than in men, thus began the routine circumcision of Egyptian baby boys, at eight days old.
Now, the land just north-east of Egypt, along the eastern-most side of the Mediterranean, was (and is) the most heavily travelled cross-roads to the Earth’s host of travelers and merchants. That land thus saw the most traffic in terms of amount and variety of disease organisms, both in and out of water. Therefore, the best way for a people to live on that land included permanent exposure of all penile skin to the bacterial ‘desert’ of the open air, thus ensuring that they neither caught nor spread the diseases which begin in, afflict, and are spread by, uncircumcised men in a disease-organism-heavy environment. Those travelling through needed not be circumcised. But, those who remained as functional residents must be circumcised, lest they acquire and spread those diseases to any who live there and/or to any who merely visit.
But, Abra(ha)m, in receiving the sign of God’s geographic covenant with his descendants, was wise and good. So, he invented the kosher method of circumcision, unlike the method the Egyptians were too proud to replace. Abra(ha)m’s method was the shield method, which was neat and quick, which meant it required little or no anesthetic, and healed well and even. The Egyptian method was most primitive by every measure: it not only was ragged and healed slowly, but, given its by-then merely customary target-skin, it unnecessarily removed most of the tactile-sensitive tissue which comprises the inner portion of the foreskin. Thus, unlike the Egyptian method and its origins, the original Jewish method of circumcision was both state-of-the-art and entirely preventive.
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== 144 and 153 ==
== 144 and 153 ==