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υψοω-VCI-API3S ο-
A--NSF καρδια-N1A-NSF συ-
P--GS επι-P ο-
A--DSN καλλος-N3E-DSN συ-
P--GS διαφθειρω-VDI-API3S ο-
A--NSF επιστημη-N1--NSF συ-
P--GS μετα-P ο-
A--GSN καλλος-N3E-GSN συ-
P--GS δια-P πληθος-N3E-ASN αμαρτια-N1A-GPF συ-
P--GS επι-P ο-
A--ASF γη-N1--ASF ριπτω-VAI-AAI1S συ-
P--AS εναντιον-P βασιλευς-N3V-GPM διδωμι-VAI-AAI1S συ-
P--AS παραδειγματιζω-VS--APN
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).
