3060. 'He said' means communication. This becomes clear from the meaning of 'saying' in the historical parts of the Word as perceiving and willing, often dealt with already. And as it means these it also means communicating since communication followed from perceiving and willing.

In Genesis 3:14, this signifies that their sensuous became so that it could live only from what was of the physical and material. (Arcana Coelestia 149)