6744. 'Take to yourself this child' means that she should link him to herself. This is clear from the meaning of 'taking to' as linking; from the meaning of the mother, to whom 'to yourself' refers here, as the Church, dealt with just above in 6742; and from the representation of Moses, to whom 'child' refers here, as the law of God in its earliest stages. In the highest sense, which describes what went on with the Lord, those were the stages that occurred when He was working to make His Human the law of God; and in the relative sense, which describes what goes on with a person who is being regenerated, they are the stages that occur when he is being introduced into God's truth, see above in 6716.