'Hasten,' in reference to Joseph, as mentioned in Genesis 43:30, signifies what bursts forth from the inmost. This is because his compassions were moved, which signifies mercy from love. When this bursts forth, it bursts forth from the inmost, and this at the first striking of the eye, or at the first moment of thought, therefore, 'hastening,' signifies nothing but 'from the inmost.' 'To hasten' or 'hastiness' in the internal sense, does not denote what is quick, but what is certain, and also what is full, thus every event. For 'haste' involves time, and in the spiritual world there is not time, but instead of time there is state, thus the haste of time has relation to such a quality of state that corresponds, and the quality of the state which corresponds is that there are several things which are efficient together, from which results a certain and full event.

(Odkazy: Arcana Coelestia 5284)

5285. Verses 33-36 And now let Pharaoh see ¹ a man with intelligence and wisdom, and set him over the land of Egypt. Let Pharaoh do this, and let him place governors in charge over the land, and let him take up the fifth part of the land of Egypt in the seven years of abundance of corn. And let them gather all the food of these good years that are coming, and let them store up grain under the hand of Pharaoh - food in the cities; and let them guard it. And let the food be for a reserve for the land, for the seven years of famine which there will be in the land of Egypt, and the land will not be cut off in the famine.

'And now let Pharaoh see' means provision to be made by the natural. 'A man with intelligence and wisdom' means with regard to inflowing truth and good. 'And set him over the land of Egypt' means which will set in order all that is in the natural mind. 'Let Pharaoh do this' means a further provision. 'And let him place governors in charge over the land' means the ordering of general wholes within the natural. 'And let him take up the fifth part of the land of Egypt' means which are to be preserved and then stored away. 'In the seven years of abundance of corn' means which are instilled during the times when truths along with forms of good have been multiplied. 'And let them gather all the food' means all things that have a useful purpose. 'Of these good years that are coming' means which are to be taken in during those times. 'And let them store up grain' means at the same time every good of truth. 'Under the hand of Pharaoh' means for when there is need and the consequent power of disposal in the natural. 'Food in the cities' means such things present in the interior parts of the natural mind. 'And let them guard it' means to be stored away there. 'And let the food be for a reserve for the land' means that it should be kept there for every useful purpose served by the natural. 'For the seven years of famine' means as need arises when there is an absence [of truth]. 'Which there will be in the land of Egypt' means which will exist in the natural. 'And the land will not be cut off in the famine' means lest the person perishes.

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