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).

Der "Vorhang des Tempels, der zerrissen wurde", wie in Matthäus 27,51:0, Markus 15,38:0 und Lukas 23,45:0, bedeutet, dass die christliche Kirche entdeckt wird, wenn die Äußerlichkeiten der alten und jüdischen Kirchen geöffnet und enthüllt werden. Der Vorhang des Tempels zerriss in zwei Teile", wie in Matthäus 27,51:0, bedeutet, dass der Herr in das wesentliche Göttliche eintrat und alle Erscheinungen zerstreute. Zugleich öffnete er mit seinem göttlich gewordenen Menschen einen Durchgang zum göttlichen Wesen.

(Verweise: Himmlischen Geheimnissen 2576; Lukas 23:45; Markus 15:38; Matthaeus 27:51)