51. Since the Philistines represented people devoted to a faith divorced from caring, they were called “uncircumcised, ” and “uncircumcised” means lacking in spiritual love and therefore having only earthly love. Spiritual love is caring.
The reason they were called uncircumcised is that “the circumcised” means those who are devoted to spiritual love. On the Philistines being called “the uncircumcised,” see 1 Samuel 17:26, 36; 2 Samuel 1:20; and elsewhere.
