The Maccabees and the child molesters

When the Greeks read the Jewish scriptures, they took as the law the five books of Moses, and the “circumcision” or “cutting around” as how God fully formed and shaped the human body, noting that the verse in Leviticus states in the passive voice that the child is to be circumcised without mentioning who precisely except for God Himself in the Creation should perform such an act.

The Greeks then rebuked the Jews for performing bizarre surgical operations at a “high place” or “place of exercise” in order to make their children uncircumcised.

[1 Maccabees 1:11–15] In those days went there out of Israel wicked men, who persuaded many, saying, Let us go and make a covenant with the heathen that are round about us: for since we departed from them we have had much sorrow. So this device pleased them well. Then certain of the people were so forward herein, that they went to the king, who gave them licence to do after the ordinances of the heathen: Whereupon they built a place of exercise at Jerusalem according to the customs of the heathen: And made themselves uncircumcised, and forsook the holy covenant, and joined themselves to the heathen, and were sold to do mischief.

Many of those pagans or heathens in particular most likely would have happened to be “white people,” (slave owners,) as the Greeks were not particularly white themselves, except for various Slavic peoples who were also white.

[1 Maccabees 2:42–48] Then came there unto him a company of Assideans who were mighty men of Israel, even all such as were voluntarily devoted unto the law. Also all they that fled for persecution joined themselves unto them, and were a stay unto them. So they joined their forces, and smote sinful men in their anger, and wicked men in their wrath: but the rest fled to the heathen for succour. Then Mattathias and his friends went round about, and pulled down the altars: And what children soever they found within the coast of Israel uncircumcised, those they circumcised valiantly. They pursued also after the proud men, and the work prospered in their hand. So they recovered the law out of the hand of the Gentiles, and out of the hand of kings, neither suffered they the sinner to triumph.

That they circumcised the children “valiantly” it is evident that no harm came to those children after the Greek manner of interpretation, the Books of the Maccabees in Apocrypha being written in Greek. The same is to be said of the Jews following their own law as it would be natural to them, and not as the Egyptian taskmasters, the cruel midwives or King Herod the Great would impose on them.