'Look not back behind thee,' as in Genesis 19:17, means that Lot, who represents the good of charity, should not look to matters of doctrine. 'To look up,' is to look to celestial things. In Genesis 18:22, looking signifies thinking because seeing denotes understanding.

(Odkazy: Arcana Coelestia 2245)

1913. That 'Sarai said to Abram' means that the affection for truth so perceived is clear from the meaning of 'Sarai' as the affection for truth, 1904, and from the fact that 'saying' in the internal sense is perceiving, as stated above in 1898, where the same words occur.