'Poor' signifies someone who is not in truths, and people who are ignorant of good and truth, but desire instruction.

(참조: Heaven and Hell 420)

2717. 'And his mother took for him' means the affection for truth. This is clear from the meaning of 'mother' as the Church, dealt with in 289. And because the spiritual Church which is represented here is governed by the affection for truth, and it is this affection which makes it a Church, 'mother' here therefore means that affection.