5460. 'If you are upright men' means if truths are indeed present within them. This is clear from the meaning of 'being upright men' as truths present within them, dealt with above in 5434, 5437.
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5456. 'And he shut them up in custody' means a separation of them from himself. This is clear from the meaning of 'putting (or shutting up) in custody' as a casting aside, and so a separation, dealt with in 5083, 5101.
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