Corpus-Paul

["Chris Cutler" <Chrisc AT powercall.co.uk>]

Some 25 years ago my eldest son was born without a foreskin. Not being
Jewish this was no big deal for us, and judging from the casual reaction of
the midwife neither serious or particularly unusual medically.

Now I have been studying Paul it occurs to me that this might be a simple
explanation for Paul's description of himself being "Holy from his mother's
womb" Would something as prosaic as this be seen differently by a first
century Jew, or did Paul mean something entirely different?

I'd appreciate any thoughts from our learned list subscribers.

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Chris Cutler
"Auditeur Libre"

What liberates is the knowledge of who we were, what we became; where we
were, whereinto we have been thrown; whereto we speed, wherefrom we are
redeemmed; what birth is, and what rebirth." (Exc. Theod. 78.2)