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Ezekiel 31:12

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12 και-C εκολεθρευω-VAI-AAI3P αυτος- D--ASM αλλοτριος-A1A-NPM λοιμος-N2--NPM απο-P εθνος-N3E-GPN και-C καταβαλλω-VBI-AAI3P αυτος- D--ASM επι-P ο- A--GPN ορος-N3E-GPN εν-P πας-A1S-DPF ο- A--DPF φαραγξ-N3G-DPF πιπτω-VAI-AAI3P ο- A--NPM κλαδος-N2--NPM αυτος- D--GSM και-C συντριβω-VDI-API3S ο- A--NPN στελεχος-N3E-NPN αυτος- D--GSM εν-P πας-A3--DSN πεδιον-N2N-DSN ο- A--GSF γη-N1--GSF και-C καταβαινω-VZI-AAI3P απο-P ο- A--GSF σκεπης-N1--GSF αυτος- D--GPM πας-A3--NPM ο- A--NPM λαος-N2--NPM ο- A--GPN εθνος-N3E-GPN και-C εδαφιζω-VAI-AAI3P αυτος- D--ASM

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Faith # 54

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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).

  
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