'Waters' particularly signify the spiritual parts of a person, or the intellectual aspects of faith, and also their opposites.

'The waters above the firmament,' as in Genesis 1:7, signify the knowledges in the internal self, and 'the waters beneath the firmament' signify the knowledges of the external self.

'Waters,' as in Ezekiel 47:9, refer to the New Jerusalem, and they signify spiritual things from a celestial origin.

'Many waters,' as in Revelation 17:1, signify truths of the Word adulterated. 'Waters' or 'rivers' signify spiritual, rational, or scientific things pertaining to truth.

'Waters … that go softly,' as in Isaiah 8:6-7, signify spiritual things, and 'waters … strong and many,' signify falsities.

'Waters,' as in Psalms 104:3, signify divine truths.

'Waters' signify truths in the natural self, and in the opposite sense, falsities.

'The waters were dried up from off the earth,' as in Genesis 8:7, signifies the apparent dissipation of falsities.

(Mga Sanggunian: Apocalypse Explained 17; Apocalypse Revealed 50; Genesis 8)

2810. 'They came to the place of which God told him' means His state at that point according to perception from Divine Truth. This is clear from the meaning of 'place' as state, dealt with above in 2786, and from the meaning of 'saying' in the historical parts of the Word as perceiving, often dealt with already. Here 'God's telling' means perceiving from Divine Truth because the name that is used is 'God', not 'Jehovah', 2586, 2807 (end).