491. The same things are signified by “sons” and “daughters” in this chapter (verses 4, 7, 10, 13, 16, 19, 26, 30), but such as is the church, such are the “sons and daughters” that is, such are the goods and truths; the truths and goods here spoken of are such as were distinctly perceived, because they are predicated of the Most Ancient Church, the principal and parent of all the other and succeeding churches.

4306. The fact that the same words which have been explained so far also deal with the descendants of Jacob, and that that sense of them is called the lower sense and also the internal historical sense, see 4279, 4288. So now their meaning in this lower sense will be explained.