526. Verse 28 And Lamech lived a hundred and eighty-two years; and he beget a son.
'Lamech' here means a ninth Church in which the perception of truth and good was so general and vague as to be almost none at all, and so it was a vastated Church. 'A son means the rise of a new Church.
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