638. Verse 14. Make thee an ark of gopher woods, mansions shalt thou make the ark, and shalt pitch it within and without with pitch. By the “ark” is signified the man of that church; by “gopher wood” his concupiscences; by the “mansions” are signified the two parts of the man, which are the will and the understanding; by “pitching it within and without” is signified his preservation from an inundation of cupidities.