4102. Verses 17, 18 And Jacob rose up, and set his sons and his womenfolk on camels. And he brought away all his cattle and all his substance which he had gathered, the cattlea he had purchased, which he had gathered in Paddan Aram, to come to Isaac his father, to the land of Canaan.
'Jacob rose up' means a raising up of the good meant by 'Jacob'. 'And set his sons and his womenfolk on camels' means a raising up of truths and of affections for these, and the arrangement of them within things that are general. 'And he brought away all his cattle and all his substance which he had gathered' means the separation of truth and good acquired from what belonged to Laban. 'The cattle he had purchased' means the things acquired by these from other sources. 'Which he had gathered in Paddan Aram' means cognitions of truth and good within the natural. 'To come to Isaac his father, to the land of Canaan' means so as to be joined to the Divine Good of the Rational, in order that the Human might be made Divine.
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