5888. 'And do not have any anger in your eyes' means sadness in the spirit or understanding. This is clear from the meaning of 'anger' here as sadness, for the words used here are a kind of repetition expressing much the same as those they follow - 'do not be grieved' - by which anxiety in the heart or will is meant (for when an apparent repetition occurs in the Word, one expression has reference to the will, the other to the understanding; or what amounts to the same, one has reference to the good of love, the other to the truth of faith. The reason for this is the heavenly marriage, which is one of goodness and truth, present in every detail of the Word, dealt with in 683, 793, 801, 2173, 2516, 2712, 5502); and from the meaning of 'eyes' as the understanding, dealt with in 2701, 4403-4421, 4523-4534.

4752. 'Come, and let us sell him to the Ishmaelites' means that those in whom simple good is present acknowledge Him. This is clear from the meaning of 'selling' as alienating something from oneself and so its acceptance by others, dealt with in 4098, and when used in reference to truth, as it is here, it means being acknowledged by others; and from the representation of 'the Ishmaelites' as those in whom simple good is present, dealt with above in 4747. The fact that those in whom simple good is present acknowledge Divine Truth, in particular regarding the Lord's Divine Human, has been shown already.