AE 721b & c - women, giving birth, the New Church, gardens, & regeneration

AE 721b [10]
... "the woman with child" those who receive truths,
and "she who is bringing forth" those who do them.
(from Jeremiah 31:8)

[11]
That those who will be of that church will acknowledge the Lord,
and will receive love to Him and thence wisdom,
is signified by
"her wilderness shall be made like Eden,
and her solitude like the garden of Jehovah",
"Eden" signifying love to the Lord,
and "the garden of Jehovah" wisdom therefrom.

[16]
Since a "mother" signifies the church,
and "sons and daughters" its truths and good,
and in the ancient churches, and afterwards the Jewish church,
all things were representative and thence significative,
it was a reproach and disgrace for women to be barren..."

AE 721c
That a woman being with child, cried out, travailing,
and pained to be delivered;
(Revelation 12:2)
which signifies that spiritual truths and goods,
which are from the Word,
can be received only with the greatest difficulty and distress,
because of the opposing evils and falsities
that then exist in the church
and occupy the minds of those who are devoted to religion.