3959. And Leah conceived again, and bare a sixth son to Jacob. That this signifies the reception and acknowledgment of truth, is evident from the signification of “conceiving,” as being to receive; and of “bringing forth,” as being to acknowledge (see n. 3955); and from the signification of a “son,” as being truth (n. 489, 491, 533, 1147, 2623, 3373).

533. As nothing more is related concerning Lamech than that he begat sons and daughters, which are the conceptions and births of such a church, we shall dwell no longer on the subject. What the births were, or the “sons and daughters” appears from the church; for such as is the church, such are the births from it. Both the churches called “Methuselah” and “Lamech” expired just before the flood.