9217. And it shall be, when he shall cry unto Me. That this signifies supplication to the Lord, is evident from the signification of “crying unto Jehovah,” as being supplication to the Lord (as above, n. 9202).

533. As nothing more is related concerning Lamech than that he begat sons and daughters, which are the conceptions and births of such a church, we shall dwell no longer on the subject. What the births were, or the “sons and daughters” appears from the church; for such as is the church, such are the births from it. Both the churches called “Methuselah” and “Lamech” expired just before the flood.