4498. 'Dinah's brothers' means the truths and goods of that Church. This is clear from the meaning of 'brothers' as truths and goods, or faith and charity, dealt with in 367, 3303, 3803, 3815, 4121, 4191, 4267, and from the representation of 'Dinah' as the affection for truth, and therefore the Church, dealt with in 3963, 3964, 44227.

3964. 'And she called her name Dinah' means the essential nature of it. This is clear from the meaning of 'name' and 'calling her name' as the essential nature, dealt with above. That which Dinah represents and means includes everything belonging to the Church of faith in which good is present, dealt with above. The same is also evident from the derivation of her name, for in the original language Dinah means judgement. 'Judgement' in the Word has reference to the truth of faith, see 2235, and 'judging' in the internal sense means the holiness of faith, and in the external sense the good of life, 3921. These things belong to the Church.