Arcana Coelestia #1067
1067. Verse 20 And Noah began to be a man (vir) of the ground, and planted a vineyard.
'Noah began to be a man of the ground' means in general a person who has been instructed from matters of doctrine concerning faith. 'And he planted a vineyard' means the Church resulting from this, 'vineyard' being the spiritual Church.
Numbers 2:4
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His division, and those who were numbered of them, were seventy-four thousand six hundred.
