8326. 'And plant them' means regeneration going on continuously. This is clear from the meaning of 'planting' as regenerating, for regeneration is like the activity of planting. When a tree is planted it grows into branches, leaves, and fruit, then from seeds in the fruit it grows into new trees, and so on. A person's regeneration is similar, which also explains why in the Word a person is compared to a tree, and one who has been regenerated to a garden or paradise. The truths of faith with that person are compared to the leaves, and forms of the good of charity to the fruit; the seeds from which new trees grow correspond to truths which spring from good, or what amounts to the same thing, to faith which springs from charity. The expression 'regeneration going on continuously' is used because a person's regeneration has a beginning but never ceases; he is continually being made more perfect not only while he lives in the world but also in the next life for evermore. Yet he can never reach any kind of perfection that enables him to be compared with the Divine.

7212. 'And I will give it to you as an inheritance' means the Lord's life there lasting forever. This is clear from the meaning of 'an inheritance', when used in reference to heaven, as the Lord's life, dealt with in 2658; and since everything that is given as an inheritance is the perpetual possession of the one to whom it is given - in heaven the everlasting possession, since people live forever there - the Lord's life there lasting forever is meant. The reason why the life in heaven is the Lord's life, and why consequently those who are there have His life within them, is that they have within them the truth and goodness which emanate from the Lord; goodness that is present in truth is the Lord Himself, while truth that has goodness within it is the life flowing from the Lord by which they all live. From this it is evident that those who have good within themselves, and truth from that good, as all in heaven do, have the Lord's life within them.