5825. 'And your servant my father said to us' means perception received from spiritual good. This is clear from the meaning of 'saying' as perception, dealt with often; and from the representation of Israel, to whom 'father' refers here, as spiritual good from the natural, dealt with in 3654, 4598, 5801, 5803, 5807.

265. 'Husband' (vir) means the rational. This is clear from verse 6 of this chapter which says that the woman gave to her husband (vir) with her and he ate, meaning that he conceded. It is also clear from what was shown concerning the word 'man' (vir) in 158, where that word was used to mean a person who is wise and intelligent. Here however, because wisdom and intelligence had perished as a result of eating from the tree of knowledge, it means the rational, for nothing else was left. Indeed the rational is an imitation or seeming likeness of intelligence.