Tooth's Freedom: Inner Law
Exodus 21:27 - A Neville Goddard interpretation
Read Exodus 21 in context
Scripture Focus
Biblical Context
Exodus 21:27 says that if a master strikes out a servant's tooth, the servant must be freed for that injury.
Neville's Inner Vision
Imagine the verse as a mirror of your own interior. The 'manservant' and 'maidservant' are the parts of you that have felt bound by a lawless fear, the 'tooth' a image of your bite at reality—your sharp belief that you must suffer to prove your worth. When you ‘smite out’ the tooth, you enact a moment of coercion within, and the inner law of consciousness responds not with vengeance but with freedom: the servant is let go for the sake of the tooth. In Neville's terms, the I AM that you are recognizes that your state defines your world. To let the servant go free is to acknowledge the truth that you are not the master of punishment, but the witness of mercy within. The act invites you to revise the scene as if forgiveness has already occurred, transforming fear into release. The moment you feel it real that you, or any part of you that fears, are set free, your outer world follows, because your inner state has changed. Mercy is not an outcome but a proven reality of your inner man.
Practice This Now
Imaginative Act: In the next moment, assume you have already freed the inner servant from the fear that gnaws at you. Revise the scene by declaring, 'I am free; mercy governs my inner law, and my world reflects that freedom.'
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