10689. 'And so it was, when Moses came down from Mount Sinai' means the flow of what is inward into the outward form that the Word, the Church, and worship take. This is clear from the meaning of 'coming down' - when used in reference to Moses, who represents the outward form of the Word containing what is inward - as the flowing of the Lord through the inward level of the Word into the outward form that it takes (for this meaning of 'coming down', see 5406); from the representation of 'Moses' as the outward form that the Word, the Church, and worship take, containing what is inward, dealt with in 10563, 10571, 10607, 10614; and from the meaning of 'Mount Sinai' as heaven where the Lord is and from which the Law or the Word comes forth, dealt with in 9420.

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.