361. 'Out of the tribe of Benjamin twelve thousand sealed' signifies the life of truth out of good in accordance with the doctrine with those who will be in the New Heaven and the Lord's New Church. When by 'Zebulon' is signified the conjugial love of good and truth, and by 'Joseph' the doctrine of good and truth, by 'Benjamin', because he is the third in the series, is signified the life of truth out of good. 'Benjamin' bears this signification because he was born last and was called by the father Jacob son of the right hand (Gen. xxxv 18), and by 'son of the right hand' is signified truth out of good. Therefore also his tribe used to dwell around Jerusalem, where the tribe of Judah was, and the city of Jerusalem used to signify the Church as to doctrine, and by its surroundings the things that are derived from doctrine. See Josh. xviii 11-28; Jer. xvii 26; xxxii 8, 44; xxxiii 53, and elsewhere.