3178. 'Send me away, and let me go to my master' means as regards the state of introduction. This is clear from that sense which results from the internal sense of the words. The same words also embody the affection that desires the joining together, for this affection belongs to the state of introduction.

In Isaiah 29:9, the phrase 'to be drunken without wine' points to people who don't care about the Word or the truths of faith, and thus have no inclination to know any thing about faith. (Arcana Coelestia 1072[6])

(Notae: Arcana Coelestia 1072 [1-6]; Isaiah 29)