Father in the Word means what is most interior, and in those things that are following the Lord's order, it means what is good. In the highest sense Father means the Lord Himself, the creator. In the generation of natural children it is the father who provides the soul or the most interior receptacle of life, and an internal heredity, and the mother who provides all of the substance that the soul uses to form its body, plus an external heredity. In this process the soul comes from the Lord through the father, and not from the father, since all life is from the Lord. The wise person calls the Lord his father and the church his mother because his interior loves come from the Lord, but are given form and actuality through the truths taught by the church. Those things thus brought forth are a person's spiritual "children". In the New Testament, when speaking of Jesus and the Father, what is meant is the outward manifestation with the divine itself as the soul inside. Because Jesus was born from a natural mother, He had a natural body and a natural Jewish heredity. Throughout his life as He was tempted by the hells, He slowly put off all he had from His mother and replaced it with what He had from Himself inside, the Father. In doing this he made himself one with the Father that was His inmost so He could truly say, "I and my Father are one".

115. Internal Meaning of Jeremiah, Chapter 49

Of those who falsify the truths of the word and of the church, who are meant by the children of Ammon. (3, 15)

1 They falsify truths. (3)

2 Truths and goods with them will be destroyed. (3, 17)

3 Mourning over this. (3)

4-5 They will be dispersed. (3)

6 Those who have not falsified truths will be accepted. (11)

Of those who have falsified the external of the word who are meant by Edom. (3)

7-8 They will be destroyed by things falsified. (3)

9-13 Nothing of truth remains. (3)

14-18 Their total destruction. (3)

19-22 The last judgment is executed upon them, and they are cast down into hell. (15, 17)

Of those who pervert the knowledges [cognitiones] of truth, who are meant by Damascus. (3)

23-26 The doctrine of truth has been destroyed thereby. (3, 12)

27 They will perish. (3)

Of those who pervert the knowledges [cognitiones] of good, who are meant by Arabia. (3)

28-30 They have destroyed the knowledges [cognitiones] of good and truth by reasonings. (3)

31-33 Their destruction. (3)

Of the falsification of doctrine, which is meant by Elam. (3)

34-36 The falsities of their doctrine will be dispersed. (3)

37-38 They will perish, (3, 3)

39 except those who have not falsified. (11, 17)