AE 700e - "Philistines", and to serve

AE 700e [20]
. . . he who makes no account of the good of charity and of life
becomes merely natural, and even sensual, loving only worldly things,
and is unable to understand any truths spiritually,
and the truths he apprehends naturally he either falsifies or defiles.
Such are they who are meant in the Word by the "Philistines."
So it is evident why the Philistines so frequently fought with the sons of Israel,
and that sometimes the Philistines conquered,
and sometimes the sons of Israel.
The Philistines conquered
when the sons of Israel departed
from the statutes and precepts in not doing them;
but when the sons of Israel lived according to these
they conquered.
To live according to the precepts and statutes
was their good of love and good of life.

[23]
. . . to bear a yoke signifies to serve . . .