3583. And let thy mother’s sons bow down themselves to thee. That this signifies over all other affections of truth, is evident from the signification of “sons,” as also being truths (see n. 489, 491, 533, 1147, 2623, 3373); and from the signification of mother,” as being the affection of spiritual truth, and thence the church; because the church is and is so called from truth and the affection thereof (n. 289, 2691, 2717).

2717. And his mother took him. That this signifies the affection of truth, is evident from the signification of “mother,” as being the church (see n. 289); and because the spiritual church that is here represented is in the affection of truth, and is a church by virtue of the affection of truth, this affection is here signified by “mother.”