412. Verse 10. And Adah gave birth to Jabal. He was the father of the tent-dweller and of cattle.
'Adah' means, as previously, the mother of the celestial and spiritual things of faith. 'Jabal, the father of the tent-dweller and of cattle' means doctrine concerning the holy things of love, and goods deriving from these, which are celestial.
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