7663. With our flock and with our herd will we go. That this signifies those who are in interior good and those who are in exterior good, is evident from the signification of “flock,” as being interior good; and of “herd,” as being exterior good (see n. 5913, 6048). By the words in this verse, that “they would go with their boys and their old men, and with their sons and with their daughters, and with their flock and with their herd,” is meant in the internal sense everything that belongs to the church, both the external and the internal church. The things of the external church are meant by “boys, sons, and herd;” and the things of the internal church by “old men,” “daughters,” and “flock;” for “old men” denote wisdom; “daughters,” the affections of good; and “flock,” good itself, which are of the internal church; whereas “boys” denote simplicities; “sons,” the affections of truth; and “herd,” external good, which are of the external church.