In Ezekiel 26:11, this signifies the love of learning or intellectual things. (Arcana Coelestia 3727)

In Revelation 6:2, this signifies the love of understanding the Word. (Apocalypse Revealed 298)

In Zechariah 12:4, this signifies that the intellectual should be filled with falsities. (Arcana Coelestia 2383[2])

In general, 'a horse' signifies knowledge or understanding of the Word. In an opposite sense it signifies the understanding of the Word falsified by reasonings, and likewise destroyed from self-derived intelligence. 'A dead horse' signifies no understanding of truth from the Word.

318. 就屬靈之義而言, "不可偷盜"表示剝奪他人由其信仰獲得的真理; 這是因偽謬和異端信條造成的影響。作為祭司, 如果履行牧職只是為了求利或求榮, 以及教導聖言中他們看見(或者至少能看見)的並不真實的事情, 他們就是盜賊。他們拿走了人們獲得拯救的工具——信仰之真理。

此類的祭司們被稱為"賊", 參看以下經文:不從門進去, 倒從別處爬進去, 那人就是賊, 就是強盜。盜賊來, 無非要偷竊, 殺害, 毀壞(約翰福音10:1, 10)。不要積攢財寶在地上, 要積攢在天上, 沒有賊進來偷(馬太福音6:19-20)。盜賊夜間而來——你何竟被剪除——豈不偷竊直到夠了呢(俄巴底亞書1:5)？它們蹦上城, 躥上牆, 爬上房屋, 進入窗戶如同盜賊(約珥書2:9)。他們行事虛謊, 內有賊人入室偷竊, 外有強盜成群騷擾(何西阿書7:1)。

2940. 'Ephron was sitting in the midst of the sons of Heth' means those who were primarily able to receive the good and truth of faith. This is clear from the representation of 'Ephron', and also from the meaning of 'the sons of Heth' as those with whom the good and truth of faith could be received and with whom a new Church existed, dealt with in 2913, 2933; and from the meaning of 'the middle' or 'in the midst' as that which is primary or the chief thing, and also that which is inmost, dealt with in 1074. 'The middle' in the internal sense means that which is primary or the chief thing, and also that which is inmost, by reason of the representatives in the next life. When anything good is represented there by means of spiritual ideas, the purest of the good is in the middle and the less and less pure in consecutive degrees from the middle, until lastly at the circumference there is that which is not good at all. And this is why 'in the midst' means both that which is primary or the chief thing and also that which is inmost. The ideas comprising thought are also represented in the same manner, and so are affections too. And all changes of state are represented in that manner, in that everything good or evil is altered as to its position towards the middle. This has its origin in the form possessed by spiritual and celestial things, which is such.