7015. 'To Jethro his father-in-law' means governed by simple good, that is to say, a resumption of the life governed by it. This is clear from the representation of 'Jethro', because he was the priest of Midian, as the good of the Church which is guided by the truth that goes with simple good, dealt with in 6827, this kind of good being meant by simple good; and from the meaning of 'father-in-law' as the good from which a joining together of good and truth springs, dealt with in 6827.