AE 314 - Young Pigeons, Turtle Doves, Lambs; AE 315 - "Slain"; AE 316 - Saints

AE 314 [10]

By young pigeons and by turtle doves
is signified the same as by lambs,
namely, innocence.

AE 315

As it were slain.
(Revelation 5:6

By being slain, in the spiritual or internal sense,
is not meant to be slain as to the body but as to the soul;
and a person is slain as to the soul
when he is no longer in any good of faith,
for then he has no spiritual life,
but instead thereof death,
which is called spiritual death;
but when "slain" is mentioned concerning the Lord,
it does not signify this,
because the Lord is Life itself,
and gives to every one spiritual life;
but it means either that He is rejected,
or that He is not acknowledged;
for, with those who do not acknowledge Him,
He is as it were no one,
and especially with those who deny Him.

AE 316 [4]

. . . they are called saints who are in Divine truths,
because the Divine truth is what is called holy.