Spreading themselves
'Spreading themselves on the earth,' as in Genesis 8:17, signifies the internal self operating on the external.
(Odkazy: Arcana Coelestia 913)
Woman, wife, bride, virgin, and daughter
The church is called 'a woman,' 'a wife,' 'a bride,' 'a virgin,' and 'a daughter,' when it has a celestial and angelic proprium, or selfhood.
(Odkazy: Arcana Coelestia 253)
