906. The symbolism of you and your wife as the church can again be seen from the series of ideas, as can the symbolism of your sons and sons' wives with you as truth, and a goodness bound up with truth, in those people. The symbolism of you as people in the church is obvious, and the symbolism of a wife as the church, of sons as truth, and of sons' wives as the goodness bound up with truth has been shown many times before [§§668, 742, 769-770]. So there is no need to tarry over it here.

769. The symbolism of Noah's sons as doctrinal teachings is established by the meaning of sons, dealt with earlier [§§518, 570]. The church could not exist without doctrinal teachings, so the sons are not simply named, but the fact that they were Noah's sons is added.