583. Quod Regeneratio fiat ad instar sicut homo concipitur, gestatur in utero, nascitur, et educatur.

Apud hominem est perpetua correspondentia inter illa quae naturaliter fiunt, et quae spiritualiter, seu quae fiunt corpore, et quae spiritu; causa est, quia homo natus est spiritualis quoad animam, et induitur naturali quod facit ejus materiale Corpus; quare cum hoc deponitur, anima ejus induta spirituali corpore, in Mundum, in quo omnia spiritualia sunt, venit, et ibi consociatur sui similibus. Nunc quia Spirituale corpus formandum est in materiali corpore, ac formatur per vera et bona, quae influunt a Domino per spiritualem Mundum, ac recipiuntur ab homine intus in talibus ejus quae sunt e naturali Mundo, quae vocantur civilia et moralia, patet qualiter formatio ejus fit; et quia, ut dictum, est perpetua correspondentia apud hominem inter illa quae naturaliter fiunt et quae spiritualiter, consequitur quod sit sicut conceptio, gestatio in utero, partus et educatio. Ex illa causa est, quod in Verbo per Nativitates naturales intelligantur Nativitates spirituales, quae sunt boni et veri, nam quicquid in sensu literae Verbi, qui est naturalis, exstat, involvit et significat spirituale: quod in omnibus et singulis sensus literae Verbi sit Sensus spiritualis, in Capite de SCRIPTURA SACRA, plene ostensum est.

[2] Quod Nativitates naturales in Verbo nominatae involvant Nativitates spirituales, manifeste constat ex his ibi, "Concepimus, parturivimus, quasi peperimus, salutes non fecimus, Esaias 26:18. ¹ A coram Domino parturit ² terra, Psalmus 114:7. Num parturivit terra die uno, num Ego frangam et non generem, et generari faciam, et concluserim, ³ Esaias 66:7-9. ⁴ Parturit Sin, et non ⁵ erit ad perrumpendum, Ezechiel 30:16. ⁶ Dolores parturientis venient Ephraimo, ille filius non sapiens, quia tempus non stat in utero filiorum," Hoschea 13:12-13; pariter alibi multoties. Quoniam naturales generationes significant spirituales in Verbo, et hae sunt a Domino, inde Ipse vocatur Formator et Eductor ab utero, quod patet ex his, "Jehovah Factor tuus, et Formator ab utero, Esaias 44:2. Eductor meus ab utero, Psalmus 22:10. ⁷ Super Te impositus sum ab utero, e visceribus matris meae Tu eductor meus, Psalmus 71:6. Attendite ad Me, portati ab utero, lati a vulva," Esaias 46:3 praeter alibi. Inde est quod Dominus dicatur Pater, ut Esaias 9:5, ⁸ 63:16, Johannes 10:30; 14:8-9; et quod illi, qui in bonis et veris sunt ab Ipso, dicantur filii et nati a Deo, et inter se fratres, Matthaeus 23:8 [9], tum quod Ecclesia dicatur Mater, Hoschea 2:2, 5; ⁹ Ezechiel 16:45.

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3814. 'And he dwelt with him for a full month' means a new state of life. This is clear from the meaning of 'dwelling' as life, dealt with in 1293, 3384, 3613, and from the meaning of 'a full month' as a new state. All periods of time mean states, see 1274, 1382, 2625, 2788, 2837, 3254, 3356, 3404, so that years, months, and days mean such. What kind of states are meant however is clear from the numbers attached to them. When however year, month, or day is used in the singular, an entire state is meant, and so the end of the previous state and the beginning of the next, as has also been shown in various places in the explanations. Here therefore 'month' means the end of the previous state and the beginning of the next, and so means a new state, as in other places in the Word, as in Isaiah,

At length from month to its month, and from sabbath to sabbath, all flesh will come to bow down before Me, said Jehovah. Isaiah 66:23.

In John,

He showed me a pure river of the water of life, bright as crystal, flowing from the throne of God and of the Lamb. In the middle of its street, and of the river, on this side and on that, was the tree of life bearing twelve fruits, yielding its fruit each month. Revelation 22:1-2.

'Yielding its fruit each month' stands for a state for ever new as regards the reception of good and the consequent practice of it. In Moses, Count the sons of Levi according to their father's house and according to their families. Every male a month old and over shall you count. Count every firstborn male of the children of Israel, a month old and over, and take the number of their names. Numbers 3:15, 40.

[2] It was because the end of the previous state and the beginning of the next, that is, a new state, was meant by 'a month' that they were ordered to count those who were 'a month old and over'. In the same author,

If you see among captives a beautiful woman, and have a desire for her so that you would take her to yourself for a wife, she shall remove the clothing of her captivity from upon her, and she shall sit in your house and lament her father and her mother for a full month. After that you shall go in to her and know her, and she shall be your wife. Deuteronomy 21:11, 13.

Here 'a full month' clearly stands for the end of the previous and the beginning of the next or new state.