417. Internal Meaning of Genesis, Chapter 16

1-16 Conjunction of the truth and good of the natural man, from which there would be only an external church, which is rational.

But concerning all this see Arcana Coelestia, where [it is explained that] these things pertaining to the church signify things pertaining to the Lord; for all things of the Word in the spiritual sense treat of the church and heaven, but in the celestial sense of the Lord. (2)

''To stop up wells,' as inGenesis 26:15, denotes to be unwilling to know truths, and to deny them, and so to obliterate them. In Genesis 21, 'wells' signify doctrines, both those disputed and not disputed. Without this significance digging wells and disputing about them would have been too trivial to be mentioned in the divine Word.

(Odkazy: Arcana Coelestia 2702 [1-17])