Father and mother, which a man is to leave
The "father and mother", which a man is supposed to leave (as in Genesis 2:24, and Matthew 19:4, 5) are, in a spiritual sense, his proprium of will, and proprium of understanding. We all love a mixture of good and evil things, as we're growing up, and we all understand a mixture of true and false things, too. The things we "own", at first, are the evil loves and false ideas, and the more we get into them, the more they define us -- i.e. they are our "properties", or, to use a more Latinate term, our proprium. We have to change those -- get rid of the evil loves and false ideas, and invite good loves and true ideas from the Lord -- building a new understanding and a new will.
(Odkazy: Conjugial Love 194)
The Inner Meaning of the Prophets and Psalms # 116
116. Internal Meaning of Jeremiah, Chapter 50
Of those who have adulterated and falsified the goods and truths of the church, who are meant by Babylon and Chaldea. (3)
1-3 They will no longer have any good or truth. (3)
4-7 Then those who are in ignorance of good and truth, because of a lack of them, will be brought to the Lord. (11)
8 They will depart from Babylon. 11 (11)
11 because they have vastated the church. (3)
12-13 It is without any truth. (3, 4)
14-16 Their destruction at the time of judgment, (15)
17 because she has destroyed the church. (15, 3)
18-20 After Babylon has been destroyed, a new church will be established, which will be acceptable to the Lord. (3, 11)
21-24 Babylon will be destroyed because she is against the Lord. (3)
25-30 They are to be wholly destroyed, (3)
31-32 on account of the love of ruling, (3)
33-34 because they do not refrain from destroying the church which the Lord establishes and redeems. (3)
35-38 All things appertaining to them from firsts to lasts have been destroyed by means of falsities. (3)
