Verse 27. Have mercy upon the regenerate principles of the soul that desires to serve You—its new desire to act from love to the Lord, its love of truth and desire to carry the same out in the life; look not to the stubbornness of the unregenerate heart, nor to its love of evil and absolute departure from the life of heaven,

6364. 'Your brothers will praise you' means that this Church is superior to all the rest. This is clear from the meaning of 'being praised' as being superior; from the representation of Judah, to whom 'you' refers here, as the celestial Church, dealt with immediately above in 6363; and from the meaning of 'brothers' as the truths which that Church possesses, thus also the Churches which are governed by those truths and are represented by 'Judah's brothers'; for truths and forms of good are what constitute a Church. The truths which the celestial Church possesses are meant by 'your brothers', that is, Judah's brothers, whereas the truths that the spiritual Church possesses are meant by 'his father's sons' below in 6366.