9082. '[The owner] shall give their master thirty shekels of silver' means that the internal man shall restore it completely. This is clear from the meaning of 'thirty shekels of silver' as complete restoration of what has been damned, by means of truth. For 'silver' is truth derived from good, 1551, 2954, 5658, 6112, 6914, 6917, 7999, 8932; 'thirty' is what is complete, 5335, 7984; and 'the owner' who shall restore is the internal man, 9069, that is, truths of faith from the Word, since these compose the life of the internal man.

7999. 'A purchase paid for with silver' means who is in possession of some spiritual truth. This is clear from the meaning of 'a purchase' as that which is acquired and made one's own, dealt with in 4397, 4487, 5374, 5397, 5406, 5410, 5426; and from the meaning of 'silver' as truth, dealt with in 1551, 2954, 5658, at this point spiritual truth since a slave who was bought means in the internal sense the natural man, and the master who bought him therefore means the spiritual man. No one can know what this really implies unless he knows in what way the spiritual buys the natural for itself, that is, acquires and makes it its own. When a person is being regenerated his internal and external, that is, his spiritual and natural, are at variance with each other at first; for his spiritual desires the things of heaven, whereas his natural desires those of the world. But at this time the spiritual is constantly entering the natural and bringing it into agreement. This is done by means of truth; and what the spiritual brings into agreement with itself within the natural is said to be 'bought with silver', that is, acquired and made its own by means of truth.