2624. 'In his old age' means when the days had been completed for the human to be cast off. This becomes clear from the meaning of 'old age' as the state when He was to cast off the human and to put on the Divine, dealt with in 2198. For Abraham was at that time a hundred years old, a number which means a full and complete state of union, as will be clear from the explanation of verse 5.

985. Verse 2 And let the fear of you and the dread of you be upon every beast of the earth and upon every bird of the air, ¹ even to everything which the ground causes to creep forth, and to all the fish of the sea; into your hands let them be given.

'The fear of you and the dread of you' means the lordship of the internal man, 'fear' having regard to evils and 'dread' to falsities. 'Upon every beast of the earth' means over the desires that belong to the lower mind. 'Upon every bird of the air' ¹ means over falsities that go with reasoning. 'Everything which the ground causes to creep forth' means affections for good. 'All the fish of the sea' means facts. 'Into your hands let them be given' means possession of them by the internal man within the external.

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