It happened on the eighth day, that they came to circumcise the child; and they would have called him Zacharias, after the name of the father.
      Now it was the custom, when they circumcised their children, to name them, because, when Abram was circumcised God gave him a new name, and called him Abraham; and it is not unfit that they should be left nameless till they are by name given up to God. Now,