Arcana Coelestia # 6563
6563. 'I beg you, forgive - I beg you - the transgression of your brothers, and their sin' means supplication and repentance. This is clear from the meaning of 'I beg you, forgive, I beg you' as supplication; and the fact that repentance too is meant is evident from the confession that they had transgressed and sinned, and also from what follows, in their offer of themselves as slaves to Joseph. The expressions 'transgression' and also 'sin' are used because of the marriage of truth and goodness in every detail of the Word; for 'transgression' means evil opposed to truth, which is the lesser, and 'sin' evil opposed to good, which is the greater. This is the reason why both expressions are used, as they are in other places, such as Genesis 31,
Jacob said to Laban, What is my transgression, what is my sin, that you have hotly pursued after me? Genesis 31:36.
In Isaiah,
I will blot out, like a cloud, your transgressions, and like a cloud, your sins. Isaiah 44:22.
In Ezekiel,
In his transgression that he has committed, 1 and in his sin that he has committed, 2 in them he will die. Ezekiel 18:24.
In the same prophet,
When your transgressions are revealed, so that your sins in all your works appear. . . Ezekiel 21:24.
In David,
Blessed is he whose transgression has been forgiven, whose sin has been covered. Psalms 32:1.
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Arcana Coelestia # 5817
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.
