Verse 29. When the operations of the Divine Love and Wisdom shall cut off from the soul all the evils of the unregenerate heart, in the new states of life to which you shall be brought to possess them as your own, and the new regenerate will shall succeed them and occupy the mind in their place,

2717. 'And his mother took for him' means the affection for truth. This is clear from the meaning of 'mother' as the Church, dealt with in 289. And because the spiritual Church which is represented here is governed by the affection for truth, and it is this affection which makes it a Church, 'mother' here therefore means that affection.