Explanation of Numbers 1:45
By Henry MacLagan
Verse 45. And thus they are ordinated and arranged with the man of the Spiritual Church, according to primary good, commencing from an intelligent perception and reception of the truths and goods of faith, and proceeding through conflicts against.
Arcana Coelestia #556
556. Since man now had no remnants of good and truth it is foretold that he would be formed differently so that he would have remnants, meant by 'a hundred and twenty years', verse 3.