1029. And every wild animal of the earth. That this signifies the lower things of his understanding and those of his will therefrom, is evident also from what has been said and shown before as to the signification of a “wild animal.” For with every man there are things interior and things exterior. The interior are things of reason, here signified by “the fowl” and also affections, signified by the “beast.” The exterior are things of knowledge [scientifica] and pleasures, which are here signified by the “wild animal of the earth.” That by “fowl, beast, and wild animal” is not signified any fowl, beast, or wild animal, but what is living in the regenerate man, anyone may know and conclude from this, that a covenant cannot be made by God with brute animals (yet it is said, “I establish My covenant with every living soul that is with you, the fowl, the beast, and the wild animal of the earth with you”), but with man, who is described by them in this way as to his interiors and exteriors.