In Revelation 5:1, the book being written on the back signifies the Word in its general sense. (Apocalypse Revealed 256)

In Ezekiel 8:16, this signifies denial of the Lord God, one of the abominations of the decadent Jerusalem. (Apocalypse Explained 401[32])

10662. 'Whatever opens [the womb] among oxen and small cattle' means present in the external and internal man. This is clear from the meaning of 'oxen and small cattle', or herd and flock, as external and internal good residing with a person, dealt with in 2566, 5913, 6048, 8937, 9135, 10609.