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 15:6, 30:33, and Numbers 18:30, when the word means: ACCOUNT, IMPUTE, CONSIDER, that is what it signifies.

In Revelation 13:18, Numbers 23:10, and Psalm 139:18, when it means to number it signifies to learn or to know.

In Revelation 13:18, this signifies to know the nature of their beliefs from the Word and also to inquire into the quality of their religious faith which had been separated from life. (Apocalypse Explained 845, Apocalypse Revealed 608) Again, count signifies to explore and know these falsified truths of the church. (Arcana Coelestia 10217[8])