2469. MAN'S MEMORY AS IT REMAINS WITH HIM AFTER DEATH, AND HIS RECOLLECTION OF THINGS HE HAD DONE DURING HIS LIFETIME

Scarcely anyone has known until now that everyone has two memories, one exterior, the other interior, and that the exterior memory belongs properly to his body but the interior to his spirit.

1147. 'And sons were born to them' means matters of doctrine deriving from those three. This is clear from the meaning of 'sons' in the internal sense as truths of faith, and also as falsities. Consequently matters of doctrine, both true and false, are meant, for such are the doctrines of Churches. That 'sons' has such a meaning, see above in 264, 489, 491, 533.