Arcana Coelestia #6749
6749. 'And the child grew' means that an increase was brought about by good. This is clear from the meaning of 'growing' as an increase. The reason why the increase is brought about by good is that the child grew through being nursed, and 'being nursed by a Hebrew woman' means the instilling of the Church's good, 6745.
Lamentations 2:18-19
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Their heart cried to the Lord: wall of the daughter of Zion, let tears run down like a river day and night; Give yourself no respite; don't let the apple of your eye cease.
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Arise, cry out in the night, at the beginning of the watches; Pour out your heart like water before the face of the Lord: Lift up your hands toward him for the life of your young children, that faint for hunger at the head of every street.
