Title: The Washing of the Feet

Topic: Salvation

Summary: The washing of the disciples' feet is a picture of how the Lord helps us, and we help each other, with problems in our lower selves.

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References:
John 13:1, 8-10, 14, 17
John 14; 15:1
Psalms 40:1; 51:1-2
Isaiah 1:16
Jeremiah 33:4-9
Ezekiel 24:11-14; 36:22, 25-26, 28-31, 33-35
Matthew 23:25
2 Corinthians 7:1
Ephesians 5:25-28
2 Timothy 2:19, 22
James 4:6
2 Peter 1:5-9
1 John 1:5-10
Revelation 19:7-8
Proverbs 16:15
Joel 2:23-24, 27
Zechariah 10:1
James 5

2145. 'He was sitting at the tent door' means the holiness which existed with Him at that time, namely the holiness of love, which is meant by 'as the day was getting warmer', dealt with in what follows next. This is clear from the meaning of 'a tent' as holiness, dealt with in 414, 1102, 1566. And for the reason why 'tents' meant forms of holiness, see the same paragraphs. Since the Lord at this time had the perception meant by the oak-groves of Mamre, which is a lower rational perception, yet more interior than that meant by the oak-grove of Moreh, dealt with in 1442, 1443, it is here represented and so is meant by his sitting at the tent door, that is, at the entrance to holiness. As regards perceptions being more interior or less interior, this may be illustrated from the perceptions which the most ancient people had. From these people I have heard that the more they were immersed in mere facts acquired from the objects of hearing and sight the lower their perceptions became; but the more they were raised up from them towards the celestial things of charity and love the more interior these perceptions became, as they were then closer to the Lord.