AE 746e - Teacher and Father

AE 746e [13]
And call no man your father upon earth,
for one is your Father who is in the heavens.
(Matthew 23:9)
In the natural sense men may be called teachers and fathers,
but representatively; that is to say,
teachers in the world teach truths indeed,
but from the Lord, not from themselves,
and fathers in the world are good,
and lead their children to good,
but from the Lord, not from themselves.
From this it follows that although they are called teachers and fathers
still they are not teachers and fathers,
but the Lord alone is Teacher and Father.