The color green is almost exclusively used in connection with plants in the Bible, and the meaning is closely connected to the meaning of plants as well. Plants, in general, represent facts, knowledge that we can gather from the world. Green plants are ones that are alive and growing. Since life represents love and goodness, it makes sense that green plants are facts that have the potential for good use. It also indicates that they are the kinds of things we learn through directly through our senses, since to identify green plants we need to actually see the greenness.

(റഫറൻസുകൾ: Apocalypse Explained 507; Apocalypse Revealed 426; Arcana Coelestia 7691)

2459. 'Lot went up out of Zoar' means when the affection for truth existed with them no longer. This is clear from the meaning of 'Zoar' as the affection for truth, dealt with in 2439; and because 'he dwelt in the mountain, for he was afraid to live in Zoar' follows immediately after, the meaning is that the affection for truth existed with them no longer, because, as is clear from verse 26, all good that accompanies truth was vastated. The description at this point is of the fifth state of the Church represented by Lot, a state in which, when the affection for truth exists no longer, an impure kind of good, which is good enveloped in falsity, introduces itself.