3173. Verses 55-58 And her brother said, and her mother, Let the girl stay with us a week or ten days; ¹ after that you will go. And he said to them, Do not delay me, since Jehovah has prospered my way. Send me away and let me go to my master. And they said, Let us call the girl and ask her personally. ² And they called Rebekah and said to her, Are you going to go with this man? And she said, I will go.

'Her brother said, and her mother' means doubt on the part of the natural man. 'Let the girl stay with us' means being kept back by them. 'A week or ten days; after that you will go' means a state of departure which was seen by them as a complete state. 'And he said to them, Do not delay me' means the will of the affection for good. 'Since Jehovah has prospered my way' means that all things had now been provided. 'Send me away, and let me go to my master' means as regards the state of introduction. 'And they said, Let us call the girl and ask her personally' means consent solely of the affection for truth. 'And they called Rebekah and said to her, Are you going to go with this man? And she said, I will go' means its full consent.

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''To stop up wells,' as inGenesis 26:15, denotes to be unwilling to know truths, and to deny them, and so to obliterate them. In Genesis 21, 'wells' signify doctrines, both those disputed and not disputed. Without this significance digging wells and disputing about them would have been too trivial to be mentioned in the divine Word.

(Odkazy: Arcana Coelestia 2702 [1-17])