479. 'Calling the name' or 'calling by name' means in the Word knowing a person's character, as shown already. Here it means knowing the character of the Most Ancient Church, which was as follows: Man was taken from the ground, that is, was regenerated by the Lord, for Adam is the ground; afterwards when he became celestial, he was above others Man by virtue of faith inherent in love to the Lord.

4617. 'A hundred and eighty years' means the nature of this state. This becomes clear from the fact that all numbers in the Word have spiritual realities as their meaning, see 482, 487, 575, 647, 648, 755, 813, 1963, 1988, 2075, 2252, 3252, 4264, 4495. 'A hundred and eighty years' accordingly means the nature of the reality, that is, of the state, which is being dealt with. 'A hundred' means a complete state, see 2636, and 'eighty' temptations, 1963, here by means of temptations - in addition to many other things which cannot be known. Numbers obtain their meanings from the simpler numbers of which they are the products when the simpler are brought together or multiplied, as with the number here which is the product of twelve and fifteen and also of others yet simpler than these.