5908. God hath set me for lord to all Egypt. That this signifies that it arranges each and all things in the natural, is evident from the signification of “being set for lord,” as being to arrange (as above, n. 5903, 5904); and from the signification of “all Egypt,” as being the memory-knowledges in the natural, thus each and all things therein, for the natural consists of memory-knowledges. (That “Egypt” is memory-knowledge has been shown many times.)

5904. And I rule over all the land of Egypt. That this signifies that he arranges the memory-knowledges therein, is evident from the signification of “to rule,” as being to arrange; and from the signification of the “land of Egypt,” as being the natural mind (see n. 5276, 5278, 5280, 5288, 5301), thus all memory-knowledges, for these belong to the natural mind. Memory-knowledges are what constitute the intellectual of this mind, but the good which flows in from the internal and arranges the memory-knowledges there, is what makes as it were the will part there.