Meaning of EAR

The organ of hearing is frequently used in a symbolic sense in the Scriptures.

When a servant, whose time of service had expired, preferred to stay with his master, saying: "I love my master, my wife and my children, I will not go free," his ear was pierced with an awl by the door, and his ear belonged in perpetuity to its owner: he was to give ear only to him as lord: a type of Christ and His love towards the Church (Ex. 21:5, 6; Deut. 15:17).

It is also said of Christ: "You have opened my ears" (Ps. 40:6), cited in Heb. LXX 10:5: "You prepared a body for me," both quotes meaning that He was the obedient servant.

The Lord said to his followers and to each of the churches in Asia: "He who has ears to hear, let him hear."

It is also said when worshiping the beast, which represents future Roman power, which means that spiritual discernment is required to understand the meaning of what was said (Mt. 13:9, 43; Rev. 2: 7, 11, 17, 29; 3:6, 13, 22; 13:9).