6096. Are a hundred and thirty years. That this signifies the state and quality, is evident from the fact that all numbers in the Word signify things (see n. 575, 647, 648, 755, 813, 1963, 2075, 2252, 3252, 4264, 4495, 4670, 5265), thus the state and quality of the thing which is being treated of. Wherefore this number specifically signifies the state and quality of the life which had appertained to Jacob hitherto, that is, the state and quality of the spiritual life which the natural at this time had from the spiritual.

1962. Verse 16. And Abram was a son of eighty years and six years, when Hagar bare Ishmael to Abram. “Abram was a son of eighty years and six years,” signifies the Lord’s state in respect to the celestial good acquired by combats of temptations; “when Hagar bare Ishmael,” signifies when the life of the affection of memory-knowledges brought forth the rational.