9046. As the woman’s master shall lay upon him. That this signifies until it agrees with the truth of good, is evident from the signification of “as he shall lay upon him,” when spoken of a fine, as being amendment even to satisfaction, thus until there is agreement (of which below); from the signification of “the master,” that is, of the woman, as being truth; and from the signification of “the woman,” as being good. For in the spiritual sense of the Word “the master” or “man” [vir] signifies truth, and “the woman” good, because by the marriage of a man with a woman is represented the marriage of truth and good (see n. 915, 2517, 4510, 4823). By “amendment until there is agreement,” is meant restoration for the injury occasioned by the untimely birth; in the spiritual sense, that is occasioned by the bringing forth or thrusting out, not in right order, of good derived from truths, by the internal man into the external or natural man. Restoration is made when they afterward come into agreement, and they do this when the external or natural man does not act from itself, but from the internal man; or when the spiritual acts in the natural, as the soul in its body. When this comes to pass, the external or natural lives from the life of the internal, and this is the new life, or life of the regenerated man.