100. That 'a garden' means intelligence and 'Eden' love, is also evident in Isaiah,

Jehovah will comfort Zion, He will comfort all her waste places, and will make her wilderness like Eden and her desert like the Garden of Jehovah. Joy and gladness will be found in her, confession and the voice of song. Isaiah 51:3.

Here 'wilderness', 'joy', and 'confession' are terms used by the prophet to express the celestial things of faith, that is, things that belong to love. But 'desert', 'gladness', and 'the voice of song' express the spiritual things of faith, which in turn are matters of the understanding. The former relate to 'Eden', the latter to 'a garden'. For throughout this prophet dual expressions for the same thing are constantly occurring, with one expression meaning celestial things, the other spiritual. For more about what the garden in Eden means, see at verse 10 below.

When the Bible talks about riches, it refers to spiritual wealth, not worldly wealth -- ideas and knowledge about the Lord and spiritual things, not money or other earthly possessions. The rich men in the Lord's various parables, then, were people who were educated in the Scriptures and knowledgeable about the Lord and the ways He wants us to behave. Of course, having lots of money does not necessarily mean you're going to spend it wisely and use it to make the world a better place; wealth is often used as a negative in the Bible, representing people who have a great deal of knowledge but use it to selfish ends.