10494. 'For [every] man has been against his son and against his brother' means when the internal has been shut off, in order that truth and good from heaven may not enter the external. This is clear from the meaning of 'man against son and against brother', or after they have killed them, as a shutting off of the internal to prevent the inflow of truth and good, dealt with above in 10490, 10492.

'Son' means truth, see 489, 491, 533, 1147, 2623, 2628, 2803, 2813, 3373, 3704, 4257, 9807.

'Brother' means good, 3815, 4121, 4191, 5409, 5686, 5692, 6756.

3372. 'For to you' means good. This becomes clear from the fact that Isaac, to whom 'to you' refers here, represents the Lord's Divine Rational, as has been shown often, and the Lord's Divine Rational is nothing other than Good, for even the Truth there, being Divine, is Good.