4398. 'Where he had stretched his tent' means holiness. This is clear from the meaning of 'a tent' as holiness, dealt with in 414, 1102, 2145, 2152, 3210.

413. That 'Adah' means the mother of the celestial things of faith is clear from the fact that Jabal, her firstborn, is called 'the father of the tent-dweller and of cattle', which are celestial because they mean the holy things of love, and goods deriving from these.