1719. The symbolism of the women and the people as both the good impulses and the true ideas can be seen from the symbolism of wives and daughters as what is good (discussed before in §§489, 490, 491, 568, 915). Here, women stands in place of wives and daughters. It can also be seen from the symbolism of a people as truth (again, discussed before, at §§1259, 1260).
Secrets of Heaven #491
491. Daughters and sons symbolize the same thing in verses 4, 7, 10, 13, 16, 19, 26, and 30 of this chapter. The nature of the particular church determines the nature of the "sons and daughters," or goodness and truth. Here they are the distinct truths and forms of goodness that those people perceived, because these sons and daughters are mentioned in reference to the earliest church, the first ancestor of all the others that followed.
