5438. 'Your servants are not spies' means that they were not there for the sake of gain. This is clear from the meaning of 'spies' as the possession of truths known to the Church for the sake of gain, dealt with above in 5432, in this case a denial of this.

The woman condemned to 'bring forth sons in sorrow' denotes the anxieties and combats in the production of truths.

(Препратки: Arcana Coelestia 261-263, Genesis 3:16)