3068. 'Let down now your pitcher' means submitting facts. This becomes clear from the meaning of 'letting down' as submitting, and from the meaning of 'a pitcher' as facts. The reason why a water-pot or a pitcher means facts is that 'water' means truth, 680, 739, 2702, and a pitcher is a vessel with water in it, even as factual knowledge is a vessel with truth in it. All factual knowledge is a vessel for truth, and all truth is a vessel for good. Factual knowledge without truth is an empty vessel, and so is truth without good; but factual knowledge in which truth is held is a vessel that is filled, as is truth in which good is held. Affection which is an attribute of love is what joins them together so that they may exist in order. For love is spiritual conjunction.

5901. 'but God' means that the Divine had done so. This is clear without explanation. What is involved in all this has been explained at the point where Joseph's being sold into Egypt is dealt with, in which country he first served in Potiphar's house. That explanation shows that because in a supreme sense Joseph represented the Lord and in a lower sense those who are being regenerated by the Lord, factual knowledge is what has to be acquired first. For that knowledge is the source from which truths have to be deduced and within which those truths have then to be encapsulated. After that, progress can be made to ideas of a more internal nature. These are the things that 'Joseph' represented, which was why it was the Divine who sent him to that country.