The meaning of “back” is more literal when it is connected to objects. When someone takes something back or gives something back, the spiritual meaning is mostly centered on the object in question and the people performing the action.There are many instances in the Bible which describe people turning back, looking back or going back. In most cases it is a negative, sometimes devastatingly so (as with Lot’s wife, turned to a pillar of salt when she looked back at the destructrion of Sodom). In general this represents our state when we are advancing to a new spiritual level and find ourselves wishing for the comfort and ease of the old one – going back represents a return to an earlier, inferior stage.

869. Verse 8 And he sent out a dove from himself to see whether the waters had abated from over the face ¹ of the ground.

'A dove' means the truths and goods of faith residing with a person who is to be regenerated. 'He sent out a dove from himself to see' means a state of receiving the truths and goods of faith. 'Whether the waters had abated' means falsities that hinder. 'The face ¹ of the ground' is those things that reside with the member of the Church. The expression 'the ground' is used because it is the first stage at which man comes to be the Church.

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