[See WE 4981-82, explaining Exod. 29:13.] 4983. As for the "kidneys," they, too, are purifiers of the blood, for they carry away what is filthy, and this in a different way. Here those points may be brought in that were written by me about the kidneys, and a comparison be made.* * Then it can also be told why the kidneys** are said to be "searched" [Ps. 7:9, 26:2; Jer. 11:20, 17:10, 20:12; Rev. 2:23], and how they symbolize these things in their different levels of meaning, etc. etc.; for everything falls together. * Let there be also some description here of these [meanings] in a series. * Then also let there be a description of how regeneration is recognized in things of nature, if it is allowed here. If it is allowed, I would then also tell what happened when I was thus * See Animate Kingdom 284ff., especially 288, 294. ** KJV has "reins," archaic for "kidneys," and NKJ has "minds."