10018. 'By the statute of an age' means in accordance with eternal laws of order. This is clear from the meaning of 'the statute' as a law of order, dealt with in 7884, 7995, 8357; and from the meaning of 'an age' as what is eternal.

Bloods signify evil in Ezekiel 16:9.

(références: Arcana Coelestia 3147 [1-10])