'Soft raiment,' as in Matthew 11:9, represents the internal sense of the Word.
(References: Arcana Coelestia 9372)
'Soft raiment,' as in Matthew 11:9, represents the internal sense of the Word.
(References: Arcana Coelestia 9372)
533. As nothing more is related concerning Lamech than that he begat sons and daughters, which are the conceptions and births of such a church, we shall dwell no longer on the subject. What the births were, or the “sons and daughters” appears from the church; for such as is the church, such are the births from it. Both the churches called “Methuselah” and “Lamech” expired just before the flood.