6678. And the midwives feared God. That this signifies that true memory-knowledges were guarded because by the Divine, is evident from the signification of “fearing God,” as being to guard what the Divine has commanded (for they who fear God guard or keep the commandments, but as all holy fear, and hence obedience and the guarding of the commandments, are from the Divine, and not at all from man, therefore by “they feared God” is signified that they were guarded by the Divine); and from the signification of midwives,” as being the natural where true memory-knowledges are (n. 4588, 6673, 6675).