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.
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