10732. Ye shall not kindle a fire in all your dwellings on the Sabbath day. That this signifies that nothing of man’s own love, which is the love of self and of the world, must appear in each and all things of man which are from the Lord, is evident from the signification of “fire,” as being love in both senses (see n. 6832, 7324, 7575, 9141), here man’s own love, which is the love of self and of the world, from which come all concupiscence, and all evil and falsity; and from the signification of the “dwellings of the sons of Israel,” as being the goods and truths of the church that are with man from the Lord; for “dwellings” denote the interior things in man, thus those which belong to his mind (n. 7719, 7910, 8269, 8309, 10153); here therefore the goods and truths that are from the Lord; and “the sons of Israel” denote the church (n. 9340). As such things were signified by “fire,” it was therefore forbidden to kindle a fire on the Sabbath day. (How the case is in regard to being led by one’s self and one’s own loves, and not by the Lord, may be seen just above, n. 10731.)