3047. Verse 10 And the servant took ten camels from his master's camels, and went; and every good thing that was his master's was in his hand; and he rose up and went to Aram Naharaim, to the city of Nahor.

'The servant took ten camels from his master's camels, and went' means Divine general facts in the natural man. 'And every good thing that was his master's was in his hand' means the goods and truths associated with those facts residing with the natural man. 'And he rose up' means a raising up. 'And went to Aram Naharaim' means resulting cognitions of truth. 'To the city of Nahor' means kindred matters of doctrine.

The basic meaning of "follow" in the Bible is pretty obvious if we consider what it means to "follow the Lord." That obviously doesn't mean we're going to wait for Him to go for a walk and tag along; it means we're going to do the things He said and believe the things He tells us in the Bible. We're going to follow Him by making His precepts a part of our lives. That same idea applies to other cases. When people in the Bible follow something, it means they are making that spiritual thing (whatever spiritual thing is described) a part of their lives. And the order of the language can even be reversed: sometimes things are described as following people (as in Psalm 23: "surely goodness and mercy will follow me..."), which again means that people are making those spiritual qualities a part of their lives.