5505. 'And they came' means a subsequent state of reformation. This is clear from the meaning here of 'coming', coming to Jacob their father, as a subsequent state of reformation. 'Jacob their father' represents the good of truth in the natural, and 'coming' to this good means being reformed thus far. For the subject in the internal sense is how the truths known to the Church, which are represented by 'the sons of Jacob', were implanted in the natural and after that became joined to the celestial of the spiritual, or what amounts to the same, how truths in the external man became joined to truths from the Divine in the internal man. From all this it is evident that here 'they came' means a subsequent state of reformation.