9958. Verses 42-43. And thou shalt make for them breeches of linen to cover the flesh of their nakedness; from the loins even unto the thighs they shall be. And they shall be upon Aaron, and upon his sons, when they go in unto the Tent of meeting, or when they come near unto the altar to minister in what is holy; lest they bear iniquity, and die; it is a statute of an age to him and to his seed after him. “And thou shalt make for them breeches of linen,” signifies what is external of conjugial love; “to cover the flesh of their nakedness,” signifies lest the interior things of the love, which are filthy and infernal, should appear; “from the loins even unto the thighs they shall be,” signifies their extension, that is, of the exteriors of conjugial love; “and they shall be upon Aaron, and upon his sons,” signifies protection from the hells; “when they go in unto the Tent of meeting,” signifies in the representative worship of all things of heaven and of the church; “or when they come near unto the altar to minister in what is holy,” signifies in the representative worship of the Lord Himself; “lest they bear iniquity, and die,” signifies the annihilation of the whole of worship; “it is a statute of an age to him and to his seed after him,” signifies the laws of order in the representative church.