9966. 'It shall be the statute of an age for him and his seed after him' means laws of order in the representative Church. This is clear from the meaning of 'the statute of an age' as a law of Divine order in heaven and in the Church, dealt with in 7884, 7995, 8357. The reason for saying 'in the representative Church' is that 'statutes' was the term given to outward forms of worship which represented inner realities, 8972, thus which were the things of the Church that were representative. And since the inner realities which were represented were Divine, and so eternal, the words 'the statute of an age' are used; for 'an age' means something eternal.