6898. 'To the land of the Canaanite and the Hittite, and the Amorite and the Perizzite, and the Hivite and the Jebusite' means the region of heaven occupied by those steeped in evils and falsities. This is clear from what has been shown above in 6854, 6858. 'The Canaanites and the Hittites' are those steeped in evils that arise from falsities, see 6858; 'the Amorites and the Perizzites' are those steeped in evils and the falsities that arise from them, 6859; and 'the Hivites and the Jebusites' are those steeped in what is idolatrous but has some kind of goodness and truth in it, 6860.

5817. 'And so it was, when we went up to your servant my father' means a raising up to spiritual good. This is clear from the meaning of 'going up' as a raising up, dealt with below; and from the representation of Israel, to whom 'father' refers here, as spiritual good from the natural, dealt with in 4286, 4598. A raising up of the kind meant here by 'going up is a movement towards more internal things; here it is a raising up from the truths in the natural, which are represented by 'Jacob's ten sons', to spiritual good from the natural, represented by 'Israel'. For there is an exterior natural and there is an interior natural, 5497, 5649. The interior natural holds spiritual good, which is 'Israel', while the exterior natural holds the truths known to the Church, which are 'Jacob's sons', and therefore 'going up to their father' means a raising up of these to spiritual good.