'Poor' signifies someone who is not in truths, and people who are ignorant of good and truth, but desire instruction.

(Referencat: Heaven and Hell 420)

1552. 'And gold' means goods deriving from truths. This is clear from the meaning of 'gold' as celestial good, or the good of wisdom and love, as is clear from what has just been shown and also from what was shown previously in 113. That here they are goods deriving from truths follows from what was stated in the previous chapter about the Lord's joining intellectual truths to celestial things.