2502. 'And dwelt between Kadesh and Shur' means His state specifically. This is clear from the meaning of 'dwelling' as living, dealt with in 1293. The words that come immediately before also point to this, that is to say, that 'Abraham travelled from there towards the land of the south', which means the Lord's advances into goods and truths of faith; and now that it is said that 'he dwelt between Kadesh and Shur', by which it follows that nothing else is meant than the Lord's state specifically, which is described by 'Kadesh' and 'Shur', to be dealt with next.

“Servant” literally means “a person who serves another," and its meaning is similar in reference to its spiritual meanings of the Bible. Our lives in their most outward form -- the physical actions we take and the thoughts and feelings directly connected to them -- are in a way “servants” to our deeper, more hidden, internal thoughts and desires. So in most cases, “servants” in the Bible represent things we're doing and thinking on that outward, external level. Servants can have good masters or evil ones, obviously, and a servant doing good work in service of an evil master is actually making the world a more evil place. So the precise meaning of a given servant in the Bible depends on the nature of the master he or she is serving. Finally, when the Bible is addressing the Lord's own spiritual development, “servant” represents the Lord's most outward aspect: the human body he inherited from Mary, with all its frailties and potential for temptation.