In the same day the Lord made a covenant with Abram. **
Could anything be more meaningless?
... And it came to pass, when Moses held up his hand, that Israel prevailed: and when he let down his hand, Amalek prevailed.
But Moses' hands were heavy; and they took a stone, and put it under him, and he sat thereon; and Aaron and Hur stayed up his hands, the one on the one side, and the other on the other side; and his hands were steady until the going down of the sun.
And Joshua discomfited Amalek and his people with the edge of the sword. **
* Judges v, 24-31.
** Exodus xvii, 11-13.
Only the most hopeless ignorance could credit such a performance.
And Jesus thought that by self-mutilation one could become a candidate for heaven:
For there are some eunuchs, which were so born from their mother's womb: and there are some eunuchs, which were made eunuchs of men: and there be eunuchs, which have made themselves eunuchs for the kingdom of heaven's sake. He that is able to receive it, let him receive it.
And the four beasts said, Amen.