Eight (8) days after His Divinity, our Lord Jesus Christ deigned to be circumcised. He submitted to circumcision, first of all, to fulfill the Law. "Think not that I am come to destroy the Law," said He; "I am not come to destroy, but to fulfill" (Matthew, Chapter 5). He subjected Himself to the Law to free transgressors subject to the Law, as the holy Apostle teaches: "When the fullness of time was come, God sent forth His Son, made a woman, made under the Law to redeem them that were under the Law" (Galatians, Chapter 4).