2664. 'Do not be distressed about the lad and about your servant-girl' means a change of state towards that rational. In the internal sense closest to the words themselves the meaning is that He was not to grieve over having to separate the merely human rational from Himself, and also that He did not grieve, because He perceived from the Divine that the separation was necessary, since there was no other way in which the human race could have been saved. This is the change of state that is meant.