We tend to think of "fruit" in two ways in natural language. One is as food that grows on trees and vines, sweet and delicious, and able to be eaten without harming the plant in any way. Another is as the things we produce, what our work yields for the betterment of the world. These are obviously connected: we are like trees, producing things that "feed" the world in some way, just as the tree produces fruit that feeds us. It makes sense, then, that the idea of fruit in the Bible is bound closely to the idea of goodness. Fruits that are eaten represent the desire for good and the energy to do what is good; fruit that is produced is the actual good that we go into the world and do.

The church is made up of men and women together, but the Writings tell us that the church as a “bride” is neither masculine nor feminine; it is a picture of truth wedded to the Divine goodness of the Lord. On a human level, a bride represents the affection for what is true, and the bridegroom represents the affection for what is good. Most references in the Bible, however, use the terms at a deeper level, where bridegroom represents the Lord – who is Divine Love or Divine Goodness – and the bride represents the church, united to the Lord through ideas and knowledge of what is true.

(Odkazy: Exodus 4)