1991. 'He said to him' means perception. This is clear from the Lord's perception which came from Jehovah, dealt with already in 1919, and from the fact that in the internal sense 'Jehovah saying' or 'God saying' means perceiving, 1602, 1791, 1815, 1819, 1822.

'The Nile' or 'river of Egypt' represents the sensory things subject to the intellectual mind and the ideas derived there. This is because they are the extreme parts of the spiritual things in the Lord's kingdom.

(Odkazy: Arcana Coelestia 5196)