6532. 'They left behind in the land of Goshen' means that those things were in the inmost part of [the Church's] factual knowledge. This is clear from the meaning of 'the land of Goshen' as the middle or inmost part within the natural, where the Church's factual knowledge resides, dealt with in 5910, 6028, 6031, 6068. The existence of the interior and the exterior forms of the good of innocence and charity, 6529-6531, in that inmost part is meant when it says that they left behind the young children, flocks and herds in the land of Goshen; for in whatever place things are left, that is where they are. Thus 'they left behind' here does not in the internal sense mean leaving behind but being there, that is to say, in the inmost part of the Church's factual knowledge, which is 'the land of Goshen'.