In most cases, "mouth" in the Bible represents thought and logic, especially the kind of active, concrete thought that is connected with speech. The reason for this is pretty obvious, but it also holds when people, for instance, remove a stone from the mouth of a well, which represents gaining access to spiritual ideas. The mouth is used for eating as well as speaking, of course. In those circumstances, it represents our first, most external perception of a new spiritual idea or desire. This also makes sense, mirroring the way tasting food in the mouth gives us an instant impression of the quality of the food.

3971. ‘Factum cum peperisset Rachel Josephum’: quod significet agnitionem spiritualis per ‘Josephum’ repraesentati, constat a significatione ‘parere’ quod sit agnoscere, de qua n. 3905, 3911, 3915, 3919; ex repraesentatione ‘Rachelis’ quod sit affectio veri interioris, de qua n. 3758, 3782, 3793, 3829; et ex repraesentatione ‘Josephi’ quod sit regnum spirituale, ita homo spiritualis, de qua n. 3969, proinde spirituale; nam spirituale ¹ quia a Domino, est quod facit hominem spiritualem, tum regnum spirituale. In illis quae praecedunt, per filios Jacobi ex ancillis et ² Leah, actum est de receptione et agnitione verorum communium, et denique de conjunctione illorum cum interiore homine, ita de regeneratione hominis usque dum fit spiritualis; ‘Josephus’ est spiritualis ille homo; in his quae nunc immediate sequuntur, agitur de fructificatione et multiplicatione veri et boni, quae significantur per ‘gregem’ quem sibi Jacob per gregem Labanis comparavit;

[2] postquam enim conjunctio facta interioris hominis cum externo, seu spiritualis cum naturali, fit fructificatio boni et multiplicatio veri, est enim conjunctio illa conjugium caeleste apud hominem; ab hoc conjugio ³ illa nascuntur; inde quoque est quod per ‘Josephum’ in sensu externo significetur fructificatio et multiplicatio, n. 3965, 3969: fructificatio dicitur de bono, et multiplicatio de vero, n. 43, 55, 913, 983, 2846, 2847.

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