Commentary for Yevamot 144:2

ותסברא קטן שעבר זמנו מי איכא למ"ד דרבנן

— And can you understand this?<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' That the point at issue should be the one suggested. ');">⁵</span> Is there any authority who maintains that the duty to circumcise a child whose proper time of circumcision had passed<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' V. supra note 4. ');">⁶</span> is only Rabbinical!<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Certainly not. Being obviously a Pentateuchal law, the point at issue in the Baraitha cited cannot be the one suggested. ');">⁷</span> But the fact is that both<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Lit., 'but, that all the world', i.e., the first Tanna and R. Eleazar b. Simeon. ');">⁸</span>

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