Grief
In Genesis 3:16, this signifies conflict with resulting anxiety. (Arcana Coelestia 261)
In Genesis 42:38, this signifies with no hope of restoration of the church. (Arcana Coelestia 5551) Sorrow signifies the anxieties and combats attending the bringing forth of truths. (Arcana Coelestia 263)
In Exodus 3:7, this signifies immersion in falsities. (Arcana Coelestia 6853)
In Revelation 18:7, this signifies here the fear of evils from hell. (Apocalypse Revealed 884)
(Odkazy: Arcana Coelestia 5887, 5888)
Arcana Coelestia # 261
261. Verse 16 And to the woman He said, I will greatly multiply your pain and your conceiving; in pain you will bear sons; and your obedience will be to your husband, and he will have dominion over you.
At this point 'the woman' means the Church [corrupted] by the proprium, which it loved. 'Greatly multiplying its pain' means conflict and the anxiety that arises out of conflict. 'Conceiving' means every thought. 'The sons' it would bear in pain means the truths it would in this way bring forth. 'Husband' (vir) here, as previously, means the rational which it is to obey and which is to have dominion over it.