'And Joseph went up to bury his father' means the steps taken by the internal to re-establish the Church. 'And there went up with him all Pharaoh's servants' means that it had attached to itself the factual knowledge belonging to the natural. 'The elders of his house' means the things that would accord with good. 'And all the elders of the land of Egypt' means the things that would accord with truth. 'And the whole house of Joseph' means aspects of the celestial of the spiritual. 'And his brothers' means the truths coming forth from this. 'And his father's house' means spiritual good. 'Only their young children' means innocence. 'And their flocks' means charity. 'And their herds' means the exercising of charity. 'They left behind in the land of Goshen' means that those things were in the inmost part of the Church's factual knowledge. 'And there went up with him both chariots' means matters of doctrine. 'And horsemen' means intellectual concepts. 'And it was an extremely large army' means truths and forms of good banded together.

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