'Wilderness' signifies something with little life in it, as described in the internal sense in Luke 1:80 'Wilderness' signifies somewhere there is no good because there is no truth. 'Wilderness,' as in Jeremiah 23:10, signifies the Word when it is adulterated.

(Посилання: Arcana Coelestia 1927)

188. The next stage of his life is represented by his dismounting from the horse and going on foot, because he is unable to get the horse to move. Then it is instilled into him that he is to be furnished with cognitions of truth and good.