4589. For this also is to thee a son. That this signifies spiritual truth may be seen from the signification of a “son,” as being truth (see n. 489, 491, 533, 1147, 2623, 3373), here spiritual truth, because the “son” here is Benjamin, by whom is represented the spiritual of the celestial.
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