1809.'If you are able to count them' means the fruitfulness of love and the multiplication of faith, or what amounts to the same, the fruitfulness of good and the multiplication of truth. This meaning - namely, that these are not able to be counted - becomes clear without explanation.

In Leviticus 26:16, this signifies the lust of evil. (Arcana Coelestia 8364[4])

In Deuteronomy 28:22, this signifies spiritual disease, or some evil destroying the life of good, or falsity destroying the life of the understanding of truth. (Arcana Coelestia 8364[3])