Circumcision has been regarded through the ages from many points of view, lay and religious, and the reasons advanced for its practice are diverse and often rationalised to counter assertions of its irrationality. This article includes an argumentum ad circumcisionem centred in the scholarly opinions of Philo Judaeus of Alexandria.
长期以来,割礼一直从许多角度被看待,包括世俗的和宗教的,而且为施行割礼所提出的理由多种多样,并且常常被合理化,以反驳关于其不合理性的断言。本文包括一个以亚历山大的斐洛(Philo Judaeus)的学术观点为中心的支持割礼的论证。