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.

10451. 'And the two tablets of the Testimony were in his hand' means the Lord's Word specifically and generally. This is clear from the meaning of 'the tablets', on which the Ten Commandments had been inscribed, as the Word in its entirety, dealt with in 9416; and from the meaning of 'the Testimony' as the Lord in respect of Divine Truth, dealt with in 9503. The reason why the Word in its entirety, thus the Word specifically and generally, is meant by those 'tablets' is that the law of life had been inscribed on them, and 'the Law' is used in a restricted sense to mean the Ten Commandments, in a less restricted sense to mean the Word written by Moses, in a broad sense to mean the historical section of the Word, and in the broadest sense to mean the whole Word, see 6752. Also since Mount Sinai, where the Law had been written on those tablets, was a sign of heaven, from which Divine Truth comes, and since Moses represented the Word, which is authentic Divine Truth from the Lord, the presence of the tablets in his hand as he came down served to symbolize that representation.