The heart means love. A good heart means love to the Lord and to the neighbor, while a hard or stony heart means the love of self or the world -- riches and things. When the psalmist asks the Lord to search his heart, he wants the Lord to see what it is that he loves. And we are what we love. What we eat may form our earthly body, but it's only temporary, what we love forms our spiritual body, beautiful or ugly as we have chosen. It's interesting to note that the first multi-cellular motion of our embryo is the pulsating that starts in a twist of blood vessel that is to become our heart, and the last motion of our natural body is our heartbeat. It is there for all of our natural life. And of course there is a beating heart in our spiritual bodies when we come to put them on.

4624. 关于嗅觉, 因而鼻孔与大人的对应关系. 那些属于这个区域的人享有整体的觉知, 以致他们可称作 “觉知”. 嗅觉及其器官就对应于这些觉知. 这也解释了为何 “闻”, “嗅”, “嗅觉敏锐”, 以及 “有个好鼻子” 在日常用语中用来论及那些常常作出准确预测的人, 以及那些敏锐的人. 事实上, 人所使用词语的内层就来源于与大人的对应, 因为就其灵而言, 人与灵人在一起; 而就其肉体而言, 则与世人在一起.