5616. Natural truths serve as a foundation. Consequently thought is full of mental images like this, and then when a person is reading the Word, he has these mental images.
5616. Natural truths are in the place of a foundation, hence thought is filled with such ideas; and, then, when a man is reading the Word, he is in them.
5616. Veritates naturales sunt loco fundamenti, inde cogitatio plena talibus ideis, et tunc cum homo legens Verbum in illis est.