1794. What will you give me? For I am walking childless, means that there was no inward religion, as can be seen from the symbolism of walking childless. Walking in an inner sense is living, as shown earlier, in §519. Being childless, however, or having no seed, no descendants of one's own, is dealt with in verses 3, 4, 5 below, where you will find an explanation of childlessness, or lack of seed [§§1798, 1799, 1802, 1803, 1804, 1810].
Secrets of Heaven #1810
1810. This is how your seed will be symbolizes the heirs of the Lord's kingdom, which can be seen from the symbolism of seed as love and the faith that comes of it or, to put it another way, people who have love and faith, whether they are angels or people on earth. This symbolism of seed has often been mentioned and proved before [§§255, 256, 1025, 1447, 1610, 1798:1].
This verse as a whole is saying that the Lord's kingdom is so vast and populous that no one could ever believe it. The only word for it is immeasurable. Its boundless reach will be discussed elsewhere, with the Lord's divine mercy, 1 and is symbolized here by the words of the current verse: "‘Look, please, toward the sky and count the stars, if you can count them.' And he said to him, ‘This is how your seed will be.'"
The same words also symbolize the countless points of goodness and truth that go into each angel's wisdom and understanding, which yield such happiness.
Footnotes:
1. For more on the subject of the vastness of the universe, and thus on the heavens as containing the great number of souls borne by the universe, see Secrets of Heaven 6697-6698, 9441; or the edited version of the Secrets of Heaven material in Other Planets 2-6, 126; or the reedited version of the Other Planets material in Heaven and Hell 415-420. [SS]
