6517. 'And now let me go up, [I beg you,] and bury my father' means a restoration to life of the Church there by the internal. This is clear from the meaning of 'burying' as a restoration to life, dealt with immediately above in 6516; from the representation of Israel, to whom 'father' refers here, as the Church, also dealt with above, in 6514; and from the representation of Joseph, the one who says this of himself, as the internal, dealt with in 6499.