8000. 'When you have circumcised him' means on being purified from filthy kinds of love. This is clear from the meaning of 'being circumcised' as being purified from self-love and love of the world, thus from filthy kinds of love, dealt with in 2039, 2056, 2632, 3412, 3413, 4462, 7045.

491. The same things are meant by 'sons and daughters' in verses 4, 7, 10, 13, 16, 19, 26, 30, of this chapter, but the character of a Church determines that of its 'sons and daughters', or goods and truths. Here they are truths and goods that men perceived most clearly, for they have regard to the Most Ancient Church, the head and forefather of all other Churches that followed after it.