9001. 'He shall deal with her according to the judgement of daughters' means that it will then be like a genuine affection for truth. This is clear from the meaning of 'according to the judgement' as with the same rights, for 'the judgement' means an external truth or a right such as exists in a civic state where the Church is representative, dealt with in 8972; and from the meaning of 'daughter' as an affection for truth, dealt with in 2362, 3024, 3963, at this point a genuine affection for truth, since 'a female slave' means an affection for truth springing from natural delight, 8993, and so an affection that is not genuine until betrothed either to master or to son. But when it has been betrothed, that is, joined to spiritual truth, meant by master and by son, it comes to be like a genuine affection; for then the natural is subordinated to spiritual truth, and when subordinated it is directed no longer by itself but by the spiritual truth under which it is subordinated. So it is that the natural comes to be like the spiritual, since it acts in unison with it; and also the life that spiritual truth possesses passes then into the natural and gives it life. But being betrothed or joined to a female slave is different from being joined to a daughter, in that the latter joining together takes place in the internal man but the former in the external man.