203. "'Would that you were cold or hot.'" This symbolically means that it would be better for them either to deny wholeheartedly the holy things of the Word and church, or to acknowledge them wholeheartedly. We will give the reason in the exposition that follows next.

In Genesis 26, the well signifies that people who were in the mere worldly knowledge of truths of faith were unwilling to make the internal nature of the Divine more well-known. (Arcana Coelestia 3412)

Broken cisterns in Jeremiah 2:13 signify false doctrines.

In Deuteronomy 6:11, cisterns hewn out signify the interiors of the natural mind–full of knowledge of good and truth. (Apocalypse Explained 617[13])

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