Matthew Poole and continuators on John 7:22

22 Moses therefore gave unto you circumcision , (not because it is of Moses, but of the fathers) and ye on the Sabbath-day circumcise a man .

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Moses gave you Circumcision, that is, a Law about Circumcision; yet that Law had not its rise from Moses: The Law was given to your Father Abraham, Gen. 17.10. long before Moses his time.

In obedience to that Law, you Circumcise a Male Child, or a Proselyte, that is, a man grown, on the Sabbath-day.

Marginal references: Lev. 12.3.; Lev. 12.3.