10091. And thou shalt sanctify the breast of the waving. That this signifies the Divine spiritual acknowledged in heaven and in the church, is evident from the signification of “sanctifying,” as being to represent the Lord and the holy things which are from Him (see n. 9956, 9988); from the signification of “the breast,” as being the Divine spiritual in heaven (n. 10087); and from the signification of “the waving,” as being vivification through acknowledgment (see n. 10083, 10089). The Divine spiritual is Divine truth in the middle or second heaven, which heaven is also called the spiritual kingdom.

565. That by “man” is here signified the race of mankind existing at that time, and indeed a race which was evil or corrupt, appears from the following passages: “My spirit shall not reprove man forever, for that he is flesh” (verse 3). “The evil of man was multiplied on the earth, and the imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil” (verse 5). “I will destroy man whom I have created” (verse 7); and in the following chapter (Genesis 7:21-22), “All flesh died that crept upon the earth, and every man, in whose nostrils was the breath of the spirit of lives.” Of man it has already been said that the Lord alone is Man, and that from Him every celestial man, or celestial church, is called “man.”

Hence all of other churches are called men; and so is everyone, no matter of what faith, to distinguish him from the brutes. But still a man is not a man, and distinct from the brutes, except by virtue of remains, which are of the Lord. From these also a man is called man, and inasmuch as he is so called by reason of remains, which belong to the Lord, it is from Him that he has the name of man be he ever so wicked, for a man is by no means man, but the vilest of brutes, unless he has remains.