10
That even more shameful practices were once common is evident from the narratives in Genesis xix. and Judges xix.
11
Religion of Israel chap. ix., p. 71.
12
Larousse, in his Grande Dictionnaire Universelle, says: "Le phallos hébraique fut pedant neuf cent ans le rival souvent victorieux de Jéhovah."
13
Encyclopaedia Britannica, article "Circumcision."
14
What Tacitus says is, "They do not eat with strangers or make marriages with them, and this nation, otherwise most prone to debauchery, abstains from all strange women. They have introduced circumcision in order to distinguish themselves thereby."