295. The reason why they are said to be “clothed with a coat of skin” is that the most ancient people were said to be “naked” on account of their innocence; but when they lost their innocence they became conscious that they were in evil, which also is called “nakedness.” That all things might appear to cohere historically (in accordance with the way of speaking of the most ancient people), they are here said to be “clothed lest they should be naked” or in evil. Their being in spiritual and natural good is evident from what was remarked above concerning them, from Verses 1-13 of this chapter, as well as from its being here related that “Jehovah God made them a coat of skin, and clothed them;” for it here treats of the first-and more especially of the second and third-posterities of the church, who were endowed with such good.