2772. He said, Take I pray thy son. That this signifies the Divine rational begotten by Him, is evident from the signification of a “son,” as being the rational (see n. 2623); here the Divine rational, because by the son is meant Isaac; and that he represents the Lord’s Divine rational has been shown above (n. 1893, 2066, 2083, 2630). And as the Lord made His rational Divine by His own power, as has been often said, by “thy son” is also signified that it was begotten by Him (see n. 1893, 2093, 2625).

2106. Abraham was a son of ninety and nine years. That this signifies the state and time before the union of the Lord’s Divine Essence with His Human Essence, is evident from the signification of “ninety-nine years,” as being the time before the Lord fully conjoined the internal man with the rational (explained above, n. 1988). The Lord’s internal man, as already shown, was Jehovah Himself, that is, the Divine itself; which, when it was united to the Human, was united to the rational; for the human begins in the inmost of the rational, and extends itself thence to man’s external.