[806] Matt. xi. 9, 11.
[807] Mark i. 2; cp. Mal. iii. 1.
[808] Mark i. 7.
[809] Matt. xxvi. 17.
[810] In his treatise on the Sermon on the Mount, Book II. iv. 12, Augustine again compares the "celebratio octavarum dierum, quas in regeneratione novi hominis celebramus" with the circumcision on the eighth day; and in Serm. 376 he says that the heads of the rebaptized were uncovered on the eighth day, as a token of liberty. Cp. Epist. II. xvii. 32, and Bingham, Orig. Sacr. XII. iv. 3.
[811] Augustine apparently supposed that the sacrifice of the paschal lamb was still observed among the Jews of the dispersion; cp. Retract. I. x. 2. It was, however, forbidden them to sacrifice the Passover except in the place which the Lord should choose to place His name there; and hence the Jews, though they observe the other paschal solemnities, abstain from the sacrifice of the lamb.
[812] Matt. xxi. 25.
[813] Gildo; see above, xxiii. 53.
[814] See Isa. xlvi. 8.
[815] Luke xv. 32.