9. The third state is one of repentance, a state in which he speaks piously and devoutly from the internal man and brings forth goods, like charitable acts which are nevertheless inanimate since he imagines that they originate in himself. They are called a tender plant, then a seed-bearing plant, and finally a fruit tree.

9225. 'You shall do the same with your oxen, [and] with your flock' means extending to exterior good and interior good. This is clear from the meaning of 'oxen' as exterior good, and from the meaning of 'flock' as interior good, both dealt with in 5913, 8937, 9135.