Inner Covenant Purity Restored

Neville's Inner Vision

Within Neville's lens, the chapter is not about externals but the inner states you entertain. The 'strange wives' symbolize attachments and thoughts that have crept into your sense of self, beliefs that dull the memory of your true I AM. When those priests 'gave their hands' to put away their wives, they enact a decisive revision of state—your inner decision to drop allegiance to a belief not in harmony with your divine nature. The ram offered for trespass becomes the symbol of paying the price of a claimed thought and choosing again to align with covenant loyalty—the remembered assurance that you belong to the one God within, your own I AM. Ezra teaches that every division within your temple can be recognized, named, and healed by switching your consciousness back to the unchanging awareness of wholeness. The effect is not historical guilt but inner clarity; as you accept that you are pure, the outward conditions reflect that inner alignment. So the lesson is: restore unity by the simple act of returning to the I AM in present tense, and the rest follows in due course.