6576. 'I will sustain you and your young children' means that they will have life from the Divine by way of the internal, through truth which is of the understanding and good which is of the will. This is clear from the meaning of 'sustaining' as an influx of goodness and truth, dealt with in 6106, thus life conveyed through truth and good; and from the representation of 'Joseph' as the internal, dealt with in 6499. But since spiritual life does not originate in the internal but in the Lord, though it comes by way of the internal, the expression 'from the Divine by way of the internal' is used. 'You and your young children' means spiritual truths within the natural and the innocence within those truths, which will have life from the Divine by way of the internal through truth and good. The reason why 'sustaining' means life conveyed through truth and good is that spiritual food consists in knowledge, intelligence, and wisdom, thus in truth and good, see 56-58, 681, 4791, 5293, 5740, 5741, 5576, 5579. The expressions 'truth which is of the understanding' and 'good which is of the will' are used because all truth belongs to the understanding, and good to the will; for the understanding is the receptacle of truth, and the will is the receptacle of good.