8997. Then he shall let her be redeemed. That this signifies alienation from these truths, is evident from the signification of “being redeemed” by him who sold her, or by another, thus of being sold by the master, as being alienation from that spiritual truth. (That “to be sold” denotes alienation, see n. 4098, 4752, 4758, 5886; also that “master” denotes spiritual truth, n. 8981, 8995)