1084. 'They took a garment' means that they placed a good interpretation on it. This is clear from what has been stated already. 'Taking a garment and covering someone's nakedness' can have no other meaning when 'being uncovered' and 'nakedness' mean errors and perversities.

In Psalm 36:8, the 'fat' and 'the fountain of life' stand for the celestial, which consists in love, and the 'river of delights' and 'light' stand for the spiritual, which consists in faith deriving from love. (Arcana Coelestia 353)