''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])

6782. 'And they came to Reuel their father' means a joining to the actual good of that Church. This is clear from the meaning of 'coming to someone' as being joined together; and from the representation of 'Reuel', since he was a priest, as good. For the meaning of 'a priest' as the good of love, see 1728, 7670, 6148. The joining together meant here is a joining of the Church's truths to its good.