Arcana Coelestia (Elliott) n. 5523

Previous Number Next Number Next Translation See Latin 

5523. 'And bring your youngest brother to me' means that if the intermediary were there the joining together would take place. This is clear from the representation of Benjamin, to whom 'youngest brother' refers here, as the intermediary, dealt with in 5411, 5413, 5443; and from the meaning of 'bringing him to me' as a consequent joining together. For the intermediary effects the joining of the internal represented by 'Joseph' to the externals represented by 'the sons of Jacob', as shown above in 5411, 5413, 5427, 5428.


This page is part of the Writings of Emanuel Swedenborg

© 2000-2001 The Academy of the New Church