6444. These are the things that are meant by 'Benjamin'; but can anyone without the internal sense state what is implied by the things said about him - that he 'is a wolf', 'will seize in the morning', 'will devour the spoil', and 'at evening will divide the plunder'? The meaning of these details would lie completely hidden unless the internal sense revealed it. Very much of what is contained in the Prophets is like this; little of it is intelligible if considered literally, but all of it is intelligible if considered from the internal sense.
From all that has been said it may now be seen perfectly clearly that Jacob's sons and the tribes named after them mean the kinds of things that constitute the Lord's Church and kingdom.
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