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.
      1. Some proposed that he should be called by his father's name, Zacharias. We have not any instance in scripture that the child should bear the father's name; but perhaps it was of late come into use among the Jews, at it is with us, and they intended hereby to do honour to the father, who was not likely to have another child.