The church is called 'a woman,' 'a wife,' 'a bride,' 'a virgin,' and 'a daughter,' when it has a celestial and angelic proprium, or selfhood.

(Odkazy: Arcana Coelestia 253)

10671. 'And the feast of ingathering at the end of the year' means the worship of a thankful mind on account of the implanting of good after that, and so on account of regeneration and complete deliverance from damnation. This is clear from what has been shown regarding this feast in 9296.