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THE UNCIRCUMCISED IN HEART.
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and in heart they are denied; for, as just stated, all the truths of faith have charity for their end, and if this is not within them they are inwardly rejected.

The quality of every one's interiors is made manifest in the other life, when the exteriors are removed; and it then appears that, where there is no charity, the interiors are in complete opposition to all the truths of faith.

It is not possible for those to receive the life of charity or mutual love, in the other life, who had it not in some degree in the life of the body; for the life they had formed in the world remains with them after death. They then are averse to and hate, the life of charity; and if they only approach near a society where the life of mutual love prevails, they are instantly seized with trembling, horror and torment. Such, although born within the church, are called sons that are strangers, uncircumcised in heart and in flesh, who are not to be admitted into the sanctuary, that is, into the kingdom of God. The same are also meant in Ezekiel, where it is written, "No son that is a stranger, uncircumcised in heart, and uncircumcised in flesh, shall enter into my sanctuary." (A. C. 2049.)


ONE MAY KNOW, YET NOT POSSESS, TRUTH.

Truth in man is altogether according to the principle of good that appertains to him. Where there is a small portion of good, there is but a small portion of truth,

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