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υιος-N2--VSM ανθρωπος-N2--GSM λαμβανω-VB--AAD2S θρηνος-N2--ASM επι-P ο-
A--ASM αρχων-N3--ASM *τυρος-N2--GSF και-C ειπον-VB--AAD2S αυτος-
D--DSM οδε-
D--APN λεγω-V1--PAI3S κυριος-N2--NSM κυριος-N2--NSM συ-
P--NS αποσφραγισμα-N3M-NSN ομοιωσις-N3I-GSF και-C στεφανος-N2--NSM καλλος-N3E-GSN
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).
