Doctrine of Faith # 54
54. That circumcision represented purification from the evils that accompany a merely natural love is apparent from the following:
Circumcise (your heart) …and take away the foreskins of your heart…, lest My wrath go forth…, because of the evil of your doings. (Jeremiah 4:4)
Circumcise the foreskin of your heart, and be stiff-necked no longer. (Deuteronomy 10:16)
To circumcise the heart or the foreskin of the heart is to purify oneself of evils. Conversely, therefore, someone uncircumcised means someone not purified of the evils accompanying a merely natural love, thus someone lacking in charity. And because someone unclean of heart means someone uncircumcised, we are told,
(No one) uncircumcised in heart or uncircumcised in the flesh shall enter My sanctuary…. (Ezekiel 44:9)
No uncircumcised person shall eat (the Passover). (Exodus 12:48)
Also that such a one was damned (Ezekiel 28:10, 31:18, 32:19).
Ezekiel 31:18
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To whom are you thus like in glory and in greatness among the trees of Eden? yet you will be brought down with the trees of Eden to the lower parts of the earth: you shall lie in the midst of the uncircumcised, with those who are slain by the sword. This is Pharaoh and all his multitude, says the Lord Yahweh.
