9
μη-D λεγω-V1--PAPNSM ειπον-VF2-FAI2S θεος-N2--NSM ειμι-V9--PAI1S εγω-
P--NS ενωπιον-P ο-
A--GPM ανααιρεω-V2--PAPGPM συ-
P--AS συ-
P--NS δε-X ειμι-V9--PAI2S ανθρωπος-N2--NSM και-C ου-D θεος-N2--NSM εν-P πληθος-N3E-DSN
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μη-D λεγω-V1--PAPNSM ειπον-VF2-FAI2S θεος-N2--NSM ειμι-V9--PAI1S εγω-
P--NS ενωπιον-P ο-
A--GPM ανααιρεω-V2--PAPGPM συ-
P--AS συ-
P--NS δε-X ειμι-V9--PAI2S ανθρωπος-N2--NSM και-C ου-D θεος-N2--NSM εν-P πληθος-N3E-DSN
54. We can see from the following passages that circumcision represented purification from evils that are caused by strictly earthly love:
Circumcise your heart and take away the foreskin of your heart, so that my wrath will not break forth because of the ill will of your deeds. (Jeremiah 4:4)
Circumcise the foreskin of your heart and no longer stiffen your neck. (Deuteronomy 10:16)
To circumcise the heart or the foreskin of the heart is to purify ourselves from evils.
Conversely, then, being uncircumcised or having a foreskin refers to people who have not been purified from evils caused by strictly earthly love and who are therefore not devoted to caring, and since having a foreskin means being unclean at heart, it says that no one who is uncircumcised at heart or uncircumcised in the flesh is to enter the sanctuary (Ezekiel 44:9); that no uncircumcised person is to eat the Passover meal (Exodus 12:48); and that the uncircumcised are damned (Ezekiel 28:10; 31:18; 32:19).