7740. 'Rightly have you spoken' means that that is in truth so. This is clear from the meaning of 'speaking rightly' as its being so, indeed being meant also by 'rightly', 5434, 5437. By the explanation 'that is in truth so is meant their arrival now at a state in which they have no wish at all to know anything about God's truth; and should it enter their mind it would be thrown out, in keeping with what has been shown just above in 7738.

5437. 'We are upright men' means that truths are accordingly present within them. This is clear from the meaning of 'we are upright men' as the presence of truths within them, dealt with just above in 5434.