10089. 'And wave it as a wave offering before Jehovah' means being endowed with life. This is clear from the meaning of 'waving as a wave offering before Jehovah' as being endowed with life through acknowledgement of the Lord and of the truth that all power in heaven and on earth is His, dealt with above in 10083. It is well known that the first thing of the Church consists in acknowledging the Lord, for the Church teaches that without the Lord there is no salvation. Many places in the Word teach that all power is His; indeed He Himself so teaches in the following places,

All things have been delivered to Me by the Father. Matthew 11:27; Luke 10:22.

The Father has given all things into the hand of the Son. John 3:34-35. ¹

The Father has given the Son power over all flesh. John 17:2.

Without Me you can do nothing. John 15:5.

All power in heaven and on earth has been given to Me. Matthew 28:18.

Jesus said to Peter, You are the rock; I will give you the keys of the kingdom of heaven, and whatever you bind on earth will be bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth will be loosed in heaven. Matthew 16:18-19.

By Peter here faith received from the Lord should be understood, thus the Lord in respect of faith, who possesses that power, see Preface to Genesis 22, and 4738, 6344(end). And 'the rock', as he is called there, means the Lord in respect of faith, 8581.

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4928. 'And afterwards his brother came out' means good which in actual fact is prior. This is clear from the representation of Zerah, to whom 'brother' refers here, as good. For he was the one who opened the womb, and so who was the firstborn, and on whose hand was the twice-dyed thread - such good being meant by him, see 4925. The reason 'afterwards his brother came out' means that good in actual fact is prior is that while a person is being regenerated good is not seen because it conceals itself within the interior man and flows into truth solely through affection in whatever degrees that truth is joined to it. When therefore truth has been joined to good, which is effected once the person has been regenerated, good reveals itself; for at this point good motivates his actions and good is so to speak the standpoint from which he sees truths since he is more concerned with life than with doctrine.