Questions for Aquinas: How can a man-made scalpel sever the Holy Foreskin?

Questions for Aquinas: How can a man-made scalpel sever the Holy Foreskin?
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First posted on Twitter for #WoodcutWednesday on 21 December 2015: the original tweet.

Here endeth this leaf of the Commonplace Book, which ſheweth Questions for Aquinas: How can a man-made scalpel sever the Holy…, the work of its first makers and not of this preſs; only the caption is the Senſeſhaper’s. The image is from Early English Books Online (STC 2836). Copied into this book the twenty-firſt day of December, 2015. Finis.

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