3461. Verses 32, 33 And so it was on that day, that Isaac's servants came and pointed out to him the reasons for the well which they had dug, and they said to him, We have found water. And he called it Shibah; therefore the name of the city is Beersheba even to this day.
'So it was on that day' means that state. 'That Isaac's servants came' means rational concepts. 'And pointed out to him the reasons for the well which they had dug; and they said to him, We have found water' means interior truths obtained by means of these. 'And he called it Shibah' means the conjunction of confirmed truth by means of them. 'Therefore the name of the city is Beersheba' means the essential nature of the doctrine resulting from that conjunction. 'Even to this day' means the perpetuity of the state.
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