AC 2632 - Circumcision

AC 2632 [3]

In the Ancient Church nothing else
was represented and signified by circumcision
than that a man should be purified
from the loves of self and of the world,
and this also by successive steps and continually;
especially when he has been born a new man,
that is, when he has been regenerated;
for the Lord then flows in by the internal way,
that is, by the good of conscience,
and successively and continually separates
the things which adhere
both from hereditary and from actual evil.