1036. Verses 12-13. And God said, This is the sign of the covenant which I make between Me and you and every living soul that is with you, for the generations of an age: I have set My bow in the cloud, and it shall be for a sign of a covenant between Me and the earth. “And God said” signifies that it was so; “this is the sign of the covenant” signifies an indication of the presence of the Lord in charity; “which I make between Me and you” signifies the conjunction of the Lord with man by charity; “and every living soul that is with you” signifies as before all things in man that have been regenerated; “for the generations of an age” signifies all perpetually who are being created anew; “I have set My bow in the cloud” signifies the state of the regenerated spiritual man, which is like a rainbow; “the cloud” signifies the obscure light in which is the spiritual man relatively to the celestial; “and it shall be for a sign of a covenant between Me and the earth” signifies as before an indication of the presence of the Lord in charity; “the earth” is here that which is man’s own. All these things regard the regenerate spiritual man, or the spiritual church.