3059. Verses 12-14 And he said, O Jehovah, the God of my master Abraham, make it go right for me today ¹ and deal mercifully with my master Abraham. Behold, I am standing beside a spring of water and the daughters of the men of the city are coming out to draw water. And let it be that the girl to whom I say, Let down now your pitcher and I will drink, and she says, Drink, and also I will give your camels a drink - let her be the one whom You have appointed for Your servant Isaac. And in this I shall know that You have dealt mercifully with my master.

'He said' means communication. 'O Jehovah, the God of my master Abraham' means of the Divine itself, which is the Father, with the Divine Human, which is the Son. 'Make it go right for me today' means providence at work from eternity. 'And deal mercifully' means an influx of love. 'With my master Abraham' means the Divine Human. 'Behold, I am standing beside a spring of water' means a state when within the Human conjunction takes places involving Divine truth. 'And the daughters of the men of the city are coming out to draw water' means affections for truth, and instruction acquired through those affections. 'And let the girl to whom I say' means an affection that has innocence within it. 'Let down now your pitcher' means submitting facts. 'And I will drink' means instruction from them in truth. 'And she says, Drink' means an affirmative response to the same. 'And also I will give your camels a drink' means consequent enlightenment of all facts within the natural man. 'Let her be the one whom You have appointed for Your servant Isaac' means the joining together of Divine truth and Divine Good in the Rational. 'And in this I shall know that You have dealt mercifully with my master' means that the beginning of the marriage lies in Divine love.

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In a general sense, being "born" in the Bible represents one spiritual state producing another, usually some form of love or affection producing or "giving birth" to truth or to desires for good. This is not hard to see: If you love someone, that love naturally gives birth to ideas on how to be good to that person and make him or her happy. This is why sons and daughters in the Bible represent true ideas and desires for good. On a higher level, though, being born represents what the Writings call "regeneration," or the life-long process of putting off our natural thoughts and desires and embracing spiritual life from the Lord. This is what the Bible means when it talks about being "born again" – if we live our lives from the Lord, He will eventually take away our evil desires so that we can be "born" as angels in heaven, free of evil desires and dark thoughts. Of course, these two levels of meaning are really one: The Lord is love itself, and if we align with Him we become forms of love and truth ourselves, expressions of His love just as the desire to do something good might be the expression of your love for a friend.