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ἀνέλαβεν δὲ ὁ λαὸς τὸ σταῖς πρὸ τοῦ ζυμωθῆναι τὰ φυράματα αὐτῶν ἐνδεδεμένα ἐν τοῖς ἱματίοις αὐτῶν ἐπὶ τῶν ὤμων
Exodus 12:34
Deuteronomy 16:3
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οὐ φάγῃ ἐπ' αὐτοῦ ζύμην ἑπτὰ ἡμέρας φάγῃ ἐπ' αὐτοῦ ἄζυμα ἄρτον κακώσεως ὅτι ἐν σπουδῇ ἐξήλθετε ἐξ αἰγύπτου ἵνα μνησθῆτε τὴν ἡμέραν τῆς ἐξοδίας ὑμῶν ἐκ γῆς αἰγύπτου πάσας τὰς ἡμέρας τῆς ζωῆς ὑμῶν
Doctrine of Faith＃54
54. That circumcision represented purification from the evils that accompany a merely natural love is apparent from the following:
Circumcise (your heart) …and take away the foreskins of your heart…, lest My wrath go forth…, because of the evil of your doings. (Jeremiah 4:4)
Circumcise the foreskin of your heart, and be stiff-necked no longer. (Deuteronomy 10:16)
To circumcise the heart or the foreskin of the heart is to purify oneself of evils. Conversely, therefore, someone uncircumcised means someone not purified of the evils accompanying a merely natural love, thus someone lacking in charity. And because someone unclean of heart means someone uncircumcised, we are told,
(No one) uncircumcised in heart or uncircumcised in the flesh shall enter My sanctuary…. (Ezekiel 44:9)
No uncircumcised person shall eat (the Passover). (Exodus 12:48)
Also that such a one was damned (Ezekiel 28:10, 31:18, 32:19).
