2653. 'Whom she had borne to Abraham' means that it was given manifestation from the Divine celestial as a father. This is clear from the meaning of 'bearing' as giving manifestation to, dealt with in 2621, 2629, and from the representation of 'Abraham' as the Divine celestial, dealt with in 1989, 2011, 2172, 2198, 2501. That this rational was a manifestation from the Lord's Divine celestial as a father, see 1895, 1896, 1902, 1910.

1910. 'And she conceived' means the initial life of the rational. This is clear from the meaning of 'conception' as initial life. As regards the rational, this receives its life, as has been stated, from the life that belongs to the internal man, and is life flowing into the life of the exterior man's affection for cognitions and knowledge. The life of the affection for cognitions and knowledge provides the rational so to speak, with a body, that is, it clothes the life of the internal man as the body does the soul. So it is exactly with cognitions and knowledge. The idea or image of soul and body exists with a human being in every part of him, in every part of his affection, and in every part of his thinking, for there is nothing, however simple it may appear to be, that does not have constituent parts and does not arise from that which is prior to itself.