Arcana Coelestia # 9065
9065. 'And when an ox strikes a man or a woman with its horn' means if an affection for evil in the natural injures the truth or the good of faith. This is clear from the meaning of 'striking with the horn' as injuring, for 'the horn' means the power of falsity arising from evil, 2832, and 'striking' means injuring; from the meaning of 'an ox' as an affection for good in the natural, dealt with in 2180, 2566, 2781, 2830, 5913, 8937, and therefore in the contrary sense as an affection for evil in the natural; from the meaning of 'a man' as the truth of faith, dealt with in 9034; and from the meaning of 'a woman' as the good of faith, dealt with in 4823, 6014, 8337.
