6919. 'And you shall put them on your sons' means application to their truths, 'and on your daughters' means application to their forms of good. This is clear from the meaning of 'sons' as truths, dealt with in 489, 491, 533, 1147, 2613, 3373; from the meaning of 'daughters' as forms of good, dealt with in 489, 491, 2362, 2363; and from the meaning of 'putting on them' as applying, for what is put on someone is applied to him.

533. Since nothing further is mentioned about Lamech apart from the fact that be beget sons and daughters, who are the conceptions and births of such a Church, there is no need to pause any longer over him. What these births, or sons and daughters, were, becomes clear from the Church, for the character of a Church determines that of its offspring. Both those Churches called Methuselah and Lamech breathed their last just before the flood.