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.

6277. ‘Deus ¹ pascens me’: quod significet Divinum illud vivificans bonum veri spiritualis e naturali, constat ex significatione ‘pascens’ quod sit vivificans; quod ‘pascere’ sit instruere, videatur n. 6044, et quod ‘pascuum’ sit id quod sustentat vitam hominis spiritualem, n. 6078, sed pascere et pascuum, de quibus ibi, praedicantur de grege, at ¹ ‘pascens’ hic de Jacobo quod sustentatus cibus et necessariis vitae, per quod in sensu interno simile significatur, nam quod sustentat et vivificat vitam corporis, hoc in sensu interno significat id quod sustentat vitam spiritualem et eam vivificat;

[2] et ex repraesentatione ‘Israelis’ quod sit bonum spirituale e naturali, de qua n. 5801, 5803, 5806, 5812, 5817, 5819, 5826, 5833; et quia hoc bonum quod Israel repraesentat, est bonum veri, ideo hic dicitur bonum veri spiritualis: ‘Israel’ enim in genuino sensu est Ecclesia spiritualis, et bonum quod est illius Ecclesiae, est bonum veri; instruuntur enim de bono per verum, et cum faciunt secundum verum in quo instructi sunt, tunc verum illud vocatur bonum; hoc bonum est bonum quod vocatur bonum veri et repraesentatur per ‘Israelem’.

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