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ενεκεν-P ουτος-
D--GSM υψοω-VCI-API3S ο-
A--NSN μεγεθος-N3E-NSN αυτος-
D--GSM παρα-P πας-A3--APN ο-
A--APN ξυλον-N2N-APN ο-
A--GSN πεδιον-N2N-GSN και-C πλατυνω-VCI-API3P ο-
A--NPM κλαδος-N2--NPM αυτος-
D--GSM απο-P υδωρ-N3T-GSN πολυς-A1--GSN
Ezekiel 31:5
Faith # 54
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).
