Pots" and other large vessels in the Bible represent facts and factual ideas, which serve as containers for truth the same way pots serve as containers for water or wine. Pots fill their function because they are hard, strong and impervious; facts are also absolute and unchanging, filling their function the same way. And pots must be filled to serve any use, just as facts must be filled with truth to serve any purpose. To some extent this meaning also applies to cups, bowls and other smaller vessels, though it is a little more immediate. Generally you don't fill a cup so you can store a liquid; you fill it to drink it. Smaller vessels then often take more of their meaning from the substance they contain, and in many cases ("cup" and "wine" especially) actually mean the same thing.

Sometimes, in the Word, wine is referred to in a good sense, and other times, in a bad one. When the Bible refers to the wine of fornication, Revelation 14:8, or the wine of whoredom, or the wine of sexual immorality, it means truths from the Word that are adulterated. (Arcana Coelestia 1072[4])

What is the adulteration of truth? It happens when real truths are denied, and man-made dogmas are substituted that lead people away from the Word and away from real repentance and reformation.

This gives power to priests, or - perhaps more often in these days - the so-called thought leaders of a culture - who devise external formulas to excuse evildoers, or corrupt truths. This makes the person’s destiny dependent on other men rather than on the relationship between themselves and the Lord.

(Odkazy: Apocalypse Explained 1045)