3959. 'Leah conceived again and bore a sixth son to Jacob' means reception and acknowledgement, that is to say, of truth. This is clear from the meaning of 'conceiving' as receiving, and of 'bearing' as acknowledging, dealt with above in 3955, and from the meaning of 'son' as truth, dealt with in 489, 491, 533, 1147, 2623, 3373.

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.