The heart means love. A good heart means love to the Lord and to the neighbor, while a hard or stony heart means the love of self or the world -- riches and things. When the psalmist asks the Lord to search his heart, he wants the Lord to see what it is that he loves. And we are what we love. What we eat may form our earthly body, but it's only temporary, what we love forms our spiritual body, beautiful or ugly as we have chosen. It's interesting to note that the first multi-cellular motion of our embryo is the pulsating that starts in a twist of blood vessel that is to become our heart, and the last motion of our natural body is our heartbeat. It is there for all of our natural life. And of course there is a beating heart in our spiritual bodies when we come to put them on.

9138. Verses 5-6 When a man devastates a field or a vineyard, sending in his beast of burden and causing devastation ¹ in another's field, he shall make repayment from the best of his own field or from the best of his own vineyard. When fire breaks out and catches hold of thorns, and a stack of grain is consumed, or standing grain, or a field, the one kindling what is kindled shall surely make repayment.

'When a man devastates a field or a vineyard' means a stripping away of the Church's goodness and truth by evil desires. 'Sending in his beast of burden' means if he does it with little self-awareness. 'And causing devastation in another's field' means consuming interconnected forms of good. 'He shall make repayment from the best of his own field or from the best of his own vineyard' means undertaking restoration with forms of good and with truths that are still intact. 'When fire breaks out' means anger arising from an affection for evil. 'And catches hold of thorns' means which spreads into falsities. 'And a stack of grain is consumed' means harm done to accepted truths and forms of the good of faith. 'Or standing grain, or a field' means or to truths and forms of the good of faith in the process of being conceived. 'The one kindling what is kindled shall surely make repayment' means undertaking restoration for the things taken away by the anger arising from an affection for evil.

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