AE 721c - "and she shall bring forth sons in pain"

AE 721c [26]
Jehovah God said to the woman,
In multiplying I will multiply thy pain and thy conception;
in pain you will bring forth sons;
and your obedience shall be to your man,
and he shall rule over you.
(Genesis 3:16)

This does not mean that women are to bring forth sons in pain,
but "the woman" means the church that from celestial has become natural;
"eating of the tree of knowledge" signifies this.
That the people of the church cannot easily be regenerated
by means of truths and a life according to them,
and that he must endure temptations
that truths may be implanted and conjoined to good,
is signified by "pain and conception shall be multiplied,"
and by "she shall bring forth sons in pain,"
"conception" signifying the reception of truth that is from good,
and "to bring forth sons" signifying to bring forth truths
from the marriage of truth and good.
Because the natural person is full of lusts
from the love of self and of the world,
and these can be removed only by means of truths,
therefore it is said
"your obedience shall be to your man, and he shall rule over you,"
"man" signifying here as elsewhere in the Word the truth of the church.