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).

In Genesis 47:31, the bed signifies things of the interior natural, to which the Lord turned Himself. (Arcana Coelestia 5721)

In Exodus 8:3, this signifies inmost things. (Arcana Coelestia 7354)

In Revelation 2:22, this signifies doctrine which everyone acquires either from the Word, or from own intelligence; for the mind rests there, and sleeps, as it were. (Apocalypse Revealed 137)

(Odkazy: Amos 4, 6, 6:4; Apocalypse Explained 1146)