And it came to pass, that on the eighth day they came to circumcise the child; and they called him Zachariah, after the name of his father.
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Theophilus of Antioch
AD 184
And because with the mother the dumb father also agreed as to the name of the child, it follows, And they all marveled. For there was no one of this name among their kinsfolk that any one could say that they had both previously determined upon it.
