10530. Unto a land flowing with milk and honey. That this signifies what is pleasant and delightful from the good of faith and of love, is evident from the signification of “land,” as being the church (of which in the places cited in n. 9325); from the signification of “milk,” as being spiritual good, which is the good of faith (see n. 2184); from the signification of “honey,” as being celestial good, which is the good of love; and from the signification of “flowing,” as being to be full. And because these things are signified by “a land flowing with milk and honey,” that which is pleasant and delightful from the good of faith and of love is also signified (n. 5620). It is said what is pleasant and delightful from these, because heavenly pleasantness and delight itself is in the good of faith and of love; for every good has its delight, for that is called good which is loved, and all delight is of love. The delight which is meant by heavenly joy, and by eternal happiness, is from no other source than the love of truth and of good. That this delight is superior to any delight of any love whatsoever that is to be found in the world, is quite unknown to those who make all delight to consist in worldly, bodily, and earthly things.