1036. Verse 12-13 And God said, This is the sign of the covenant which I give between Me and you and every living soul that is with you, into the generations of an age. I have given My bow in the cloud, and it will be for a sign of the covenant between Me and the earth. 'And God said' means that it was so. 'This is the sign of the covenant' means a token of the Lord's presence in charity. 'Which I give between Me and you' means conjunction of the Lord with man by means of charity. 'And every living soul that is with you' means, as previously, all things with a person that have been regenerated. 'Into the generations of an age' means all unceasingly who are being created anew. 'I have given [My] bow in the cloud' means the state of a regenerate spiritual person, who is like a rainbow -'the cloud' means the obscure light in which the spiritual man dwells in comparison with the celestial man. 'And it will be for a sign of the covenant between Me and the earth' means, as previously, a token of the Lord's presence in charity, 'the earth' here being man's proprium. All these details have regard to a regenerate spiritual person or the spiritual Church.