Neville Goddard on Exodus 21:26 - Mystical Bible Interpretation

Read Exodus 21 in context

Scripture Focus

26And if a man smite the eye of his servant, or the eye of his maid, that it perish; he shall let him go free for his eye's sake.

Exodus 21:26

Biblical Context

Exodus 21:26 speaks of a master harming a servant’s eye and the consequence that the servant must be set free for the injury; the text frames release as the just outcome.

Neville's Inner Vision

Consider the eye as a focal point of belief, and the servant as the obedient part of yourself that you live by. When the eye is struck and perishes, the psyche is invited to release the servant and shift perception. The I AM within does not punish; it invites a re-creation of the scene in the imagination. The law whispers mercy because a hardened image must melt for a greater identity to dawn. If you insist on smiting your inner servant to prove power, you imprison yourself in a state. But by revising the moment—imagining the eye spared and the servant freed—you alter the inner weather. Your consciousness recognizes a larger self, where punishment yields to freedom and the freed servant serves a wiser law. The act of letting go is inward; when you feel the release as now, you enter a broader I AM that requires no harm to prosper.

Practice This Now

Imaginative act: Assume the scene now; say, 'I am free, and I release my inner servant for the sake of the eye.' Revise the moment into mercy and feel it in your chest until the feeling is real.