413. Internal Meaning of Genesis, Chapter 12

1-8 The institution of the Israelitish and Jewish church, which was from Eber, and therefore was called the Hebrew church, and its first institution from Abram, who was commanded to go into the land of Canaan, for the reason that all places in that land, and those round about it, had been allotted spiritual significations by the men of the Most Ancient Church, and these were to be mentioned by name in the new Word that was to be written among them, in which the names of those places were to be employed. (3)

9-20 The first instruction of that church, which is the instruction of the natural man, by means of knowledges [scientiae] which are meant by Egypt, in which country Abram was at that time. (16)