3198. However, those who observe the marriage debt, but still do not love their husbands, but despise them, and at last count them as nothing, were symbolized to me at first by a cock, and later by some kind of tiger or cat of a dark color, with a little bit of gray. Thus it was symbolized that such [wives] begin in this way as cocks, talking a lot, and scolding, and are afterwards turned into the nature of such tigers. And because there are many like this, it was said that they nevertheless love their children, but this storge* or love of children is no different than that of brute animals, which love their children even more than themselves. So also do these women, with whom there is not anything spiritual in their earthly part. 1748, 19 Sept. Some of these were also a little farther forward, higher up, in whom there was not even a tiny spark of marriage love. They even impede the marriage process, because there is nothing of that love; added to this as a later confirmation is the fact that they are thus able to be in command. * Greed for "parental love."