1020. That these things are meant becomes clear from the fact that everything put together as history from Genesis 1 down to Eber in Chapter 11 means something different from what appears in the letter, and from the consideration that the historical narratives there are purely made-up history customary among the most ancient people. When attesting the truth of some matter they would say that 'Jehovah said it'. Here however 'God' is used because the subject is the spiritual Church. And they did the same when anything true was being, or had been, put into effect.

10095. 'And it shall be for Aaron and his sons by the statute of an age from among the children of Israel' means the law of order in the representative Church as regards the Lord's Divine Good and the Divine Truth emanating from that Good. This is clear from the representation of 'Aaron and his sons' as the Lord in respect of Divine Good and of the Divine Truth emanating from that Good, dealt with in 9806, 9807, 10068; from the meaning of 'the statute of an age' as a law of Divine order, dealt with in 7884, 7995, 8357; and from the representation of 'the children of Israel' as the Church, dealt with in 4286, 6426, 6637, 9340. The reason why the representative Church is meant is that this Church was established among the children of Israel, see the places referred to in 9320(end).