3449. 'And Isaac said to them, For what reason have you come to me, seeing that you hate me and have sent me away from you?' means, Why should they desire that which is Divine seeing that they refused to recognize it and loathed that which is contained in the internal sense of the Word? This becomes clear from what has been stated above at verses 15-16, 19-21.

578. These numbers alone show what the Word of the Lord includes within its bosom and inner recesses, namely arcana hidden away which are nowhere exposed to the naked eye. The same applies everywhere else, in that every expression contains things such as these.