This can, of course, be a wonderful thing: It is essential for our journey to heaven, and is the reason for the holiness of marriage. But when the men represent falsity it can also be horrendously twisted, as in the attempted homosexual rape in Sodom (Genesis 19) and the rape of the concubine in Gibeah (Judges 19). In a general sense, men represent things of the intellect -- facts, ideas, knowledge, everything from the deepest truths to the most pernicious falsities about life and the Lord. Women in general represents things of affection -- desire, passion, caring, everything from the most exalted love for the Lord to the darkest hatred. When a man “knows” a woman in the Bible, then, it represents a joining together of those intellectual and affectionate faculties. “Know" is also often used in connection with virginity. A women who has “not known a man” represents the affection for truth, unsullied by falsity.

468. The following passages in the Word show that a tree means a human being:

All the trees of the field must recognize that I, Jehovah, will humble the tall tree; I will exalt the humble tree; I will wither the thriving tree and cause the dried-out tree to germinate. (Ezekiel 17:24)

Blessed are the people who take good pleasure in the law. They will be like a tree planted by streams of water, which will produce fruit in its time. (Psalms 1:1-3; Jeremiah 17:7-8)

Praise Jehovah, you fruit trees. (Psalms 148:9)

The trees of Jehovah are drenched. (Psalms 104:16)

The axe lies against the root of the tree. Every tree that does not produce good fruit will be cut down. (Matthew 3:10; 7:16-20)

Either make the tree good and its fruit good or make the tree rotten [and its fruit rotten], for a tree is recognized by its fruit. (Matthew 12:33; Luke 6:43-44)

I will start a fire that will consume every thriving tree and every dried-out tree. (Ezekiel 20:47)

Since a tree means a person, therefore it was decreed that "in the land of Canaan a tree's fruit that is good to eat should be circumcised" (Leviticus 19:23-24). Since olive oil means a person of the heavenly church, we read of "the two witnesses who were prophesying, that they were two olive trees standing next to the Lord of the whole earth" (Revelation 11:4). Likewise Zechariah 4:3, 11-12, 14; and in David, "I am an olive tree, thriving in the house of God" (Psalms 52:8); and in Jeremiah, "Jehovah has called your name 'a thriving olive tree, beautiful in its fruit'" (Jeremiah 11:16-17), besides many more passages, which because of their abundance are not presented here.