AC 10490 - the meanings of relationships & temptations

AC 10490 [4-5]
He who does not know that by "brethren," "companions," "neighbors,"
and many other names of relationship
are signified the goods and truths of the church and of heaven;
and their opposites, which are evils and falsities;
cannot know what is involved in many other passages in the Word
where these names occur, as in the following:

Think not that I am come to send peace on the earth;
I am not come to send peace, but a sword.
For I am come to set a man at variance against his father,
and the daughter against her mother,
and the daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law;
and a man's foes shall be those of his own household.
Whosoever loves father or mother more than Me is not worthy of Me;
and whosoever loves son or daughter more than Me is not worthy of Me;
and whosoever does not take up his cross and follow after Me,
is not worthy of Me.
(Matthew 10:34-38)

spiritual combats are here treated of,
which are temptations to be undergone by those who are to be regenerated,
thus the contentions arising in a person between the evils and falsities
which are with him from hell,
and the goods and truths which are with him from the Lord.
Because these combats are here described, it is said,
"whosoever doth not take up his cross,
and follow after Me, is not worthy of Me;"
by the "cross" being meant the state of a person when in temptations.
He who does not know that such things are signified
by "man" and "father," by "daughter" and "mother,"
by "daughter-in-law" and "mother- in-law,"
must believe that the Lord came into the world
in order to take away peace in homes and families, and introduce dissension;
and yet He came to give peace and to take away dissensions,
according to His own words in John 14:27, and elsewhere.

Peace I leave with you,
My peace I will give to you;
not as the world give do I give to you.
Let not your heart be troubled,
neither let it be afraid.

That the dissension of the internal and the external person
is described in this passage (Matthew 10:34-38),
is evident from the signification in the internal sense of
"man" and "father," of "daughter" and "mother,"
and of "daughter-in-law" and "mother-in-law,"
in which sense "man" [homo] denotes the good which is from the Lord;
"father" denotes the evil which is from man's own;
"daughter" denotes the affection of good and truth;
"mother" denotes the affection of evil and falsity;
"daughter-in-law" denotes the truth of the church adjoined to its good;
and "mother-in-law" denotes falsity adjoined to its evil.
And because the combat between goods and evils,
and between falsities and truths, with a person is described,
it is also said that "a man's foes shall be those of his own household,"
for by "those of his own household" is signified
the things that appertain to man, thus which are his own;
and "foes" in a spiritual sense denote the evils and falsities
which assault goods and truths.