4100. 'For all the riches which God has snatched from our father belong to us and to our sons' means that all had been acquired by His own power and nothing given to Him by anyone else - by flowing in from His Divine into that which He received from [intermediate good]. This is clear from what has been stated and explained above in 4065, 4075, 4081.

4080. 'And if he said thus: The variegated will be your wages, then all the flocks bore variegated' means even falsities that were linked to them. This is clear from what has just been stated, and from the meaning of 'the variegated' as truths interspersed among and mingled with evils, dealt with in 4005, and so as falsities.