1809.'If you are able to count them' means the fruitfulness of love and the multiplication of faith, or what amounts to the same, the fruitfulness of good and the multiplication of truth. This meaning - namely, that these are not able to be counted - becomes clear without explanation.

The star which went before them [the wise men] meant knowledge coming from heaven, since stars in the Word represent pieces of knowledge.

(De Verbo 7)