3756. One could show quite fully here that this is the internal sense of these words. It could be shown fully that 'those who are with child' means those who first are endowed with good, and 'those who give suck' those who are endowed with a state of innocence. It could also be shown fully that 'flight' means a removal from these, 'winter' an aversion to those forms of good because self-love is in possession of the interiors, while 'flight on a sabbath' means profanation, which comes about when holiness exists externally but self-love and love of the world reign inwardly. But since the same words, and expressions like them, occur in various places further on, the meaning of them will in the Lord's Divine mercy be shown in those places.