Assertion: circumcision's effect | /r/HasProperty | de sac.
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text: St. Thomas holds that circumcision was a figure of baptism: this retrenches and restrains the animal man as that removed a part of his body—which physical act indicated the spiritual effect of the sacrament (De Sac., Summa, III, Q. lxx, a. 1).