Arcana Coelestia #1020
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.
Arcana Coelestia #6093
6093. 'How many are the days of the years of your life?' means regarding the state of life of the natural from the spiritual. This is clear from the meaning of 'the days', also 'the years', as states, dealt with in 23, 487, 488, 493, 893, 2788, 3462, 3785, 4850; and from the meaning of 'life' as spiritual life, dealt with in 5407, 5890, in this case spiritual life in the natural, which is the natural from the spiritual.