Father in the Word means what is most interior, and in those things that are following the Lord's order, it means what is good. In the highest sense Father means the Lord Himself, the creator. In the generation of natural children it is the father who provides the soul or the most interior receptacle of life, and an internal heredity, and the mother who provides all of the substance that the soul uses to form its body, plus an external heredity. In this process the soul comes from the Lord through the father, and not from the father, since all life is from the Lord. The wise person calls the Lord his father and the church his mother because his interior loves come from the Lord, but are given form and actuality through the truths taught by the church. Those things thus brought forth are a person's spiritual "children". In the New Testament, when speaking of Jesus and the Father, what is meant is the outward manifestation with the divine itself as the soul inside. Because Jesus was born from a natural mother, He had a natural body and a natural Jewish heredity. Throughout his life as He was tempted by the hells, He slowly put off all he had from His mother and replaced it with what He had from Himself inside, the Father. In doing this he made himself one with the Father that was His inmost so He could truly say, "I and my Father are one".

3413. “用土把它们填满了” 表用世俗事物, 用自我之爱和对物质利益的爱. 这从 “土” 的含义清楚可知, “土” 是指具有这种性质的事物 (249节). 意思是这样: 那些所谓的 “非利士人”, 就是不关注生活, 而关注教义的人用世俗之爱, 也就是自我之爱和利益之爱抹掉内层真理. 他们由于这些爱而被称为 “未受割礼的” (2039, 2049, 2056, 2632节) . 事实上, 他们在这些爱的影响下, 不能不 “用土填满亚伯拉罕的井”, 也就是用世俗事物抹掉圣言的内层真理, 因为他们绝不可能通过这些爱看到属灵事物, 也就是属于来自主的真理之光的事物. 实际上, 这些爱带来黑暗, 而这黑暗熄灭这光. 因为如刚才所述 (3412节), 来自主的真理之光一靠近, 只关心教义, 不关心生活的人就会陷入一片漆黑和愚蠢, 甚至会变得愤怒, 竭尽所能, 千方百计地摧毁真理. 因为自我之爱和利益之爱具有这样的性质: 它们根本不能容忍来自神性的任何真理靠近它们. 然而, 这种人却能自夸自耀, 因为他们知道真理; 甚至以表面的热情宣扬它们. 但是, 这其实是点燃并激发他们的自我之爱和利益之爱的火, 并且他们的激情纯粹是这些爱所激发的热情. 这一点从以下事实很清楚地看出来, 即: 即便真理与这种人的实际生活发生冲突, 他们也能以同样的激情或热情来宣扬它们. 这些就是堵塞圣言本身, 也就是一切真理的源泉的世俗事物.