ἦλθον, on the eighth, the legal day, they came, to circumcise the child; i.e., those who were concerned in the function the person who performed the operation, and the relatives of the family. ἐκάλουν may be the imperfect of repeated action = they took for granted by repeated expressions that the name was to be Zechariah, or the conative imperfect indicating a wish which was frustrated.

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Old Testament