4037. 'And servant-girls and slaves' means intermediate goods and truths, that is, the natural goods and truths themselves. This is clear from the meaning of 'servant-girls' as affections belonging to the natural, and therefore as the goods belonging to it, dealt with in 1895, 2567, 3835, 3849; and from the meaning of 'slaves' as facts, which are the truths of the natural man, dealt with in 2567, 3019, 3020, 3409.

3409. 'And he had many servants' means truth derived from that good. This is clear from the meaning of 'servants' as everything that is beneath, that has been subordinated, and that is obedient, dealt with in 1713, 2541, 3019, 3020 - thus truth since truth originates in good and ministers to good, dealt with extensively already.