In Genesis 10:5, Deuteronomy 28:49, this signifies a way of thinking. (Arcana Coelestia 1159)

In Psalms 35:28, 51:14, this corresponds in general to the affection for truth, or to people in the Grand Man in this affection, and are afterwards in affection for good from truth. (Arcana Coelestia 4791)

In Exodus 11:7, this signifies no condemnation or lamentation. (Arcana Coelestia 7784)

In Revelation 5:9, this signifies that those people have been redeemed who, in any religion, are in doctrinal truths. (Apocalypse Revealed 282)

(Odkazy: Luke 16, 16:24, Luke 24; Revelation 10, 16, Revelation 16:10)

7035. 'Israel is My son, My firstborn' means that those guided and governed by spiritual truth and good have been adopted. This is clear from the meaning of 'son', when used by Jehovah or the Lord to speak of those who belong to the spiritual Church, as one who has been adopted, dealt with below; from the meaning of 'firstborn' as the faith that is wedded to charity, which the spiritual Church possesses, dealt with in 367, 2475, 3725, 4925, 4926, 4928, 4930; and from the representation of 'Israel' as the spiritual Church, dealt with in 6637. 'Israel is My son, My firstborn' means that those guided and governed by spiritual truth and good - that is, those belonging to the spiritual Church - have been adopted and so recognized as sons because the Lord saved them by His Coming into the world, see 6854, 6914. For this reason also, as well as by virtue of their faith in the Lord, they are called 'the firstborn son'; and they are the ones who are meant by the Lord in John,

And other sheep I have which are not of this fold; I must bring them also, and they will hear My voice, and there will be one flock and one Shepherd. John 10:16.