6919. 'And you shall put them on your sons' means application to their truths, 'and on your daughters' means application to their forms of good. This is clear from the meaning of 'sons' as truths, dealt with in 489, 491, 533, 1147, 2613, 3373; from the meaning of 'daughters' as forms of good, dealt with in 489, 491, 2362, 2363; and from the meaning of 'putting on them' as applying, for what is put on someone is applied to him.

491. The same things are meant by 'sons and daughters' in verses 4, 7, 10, 13, 16, 19, 26, 30, of this chapter, but the character of a Church determines that of its 'sons and daughters', or goods and truths. Here they are truths and goods that men perceived most clearly, for they have regard to the Most Ancient Church, the head and forefather of all other Churches that followed after it.