4277. 'And he touched the hollow of his thigh' means where celestial-spiritual good is joined to natural good meant by 'Jacob'. This is clear from the meaning of 'the thigh' as conjugial love, and consequently as all celestial and spiritual love, since these are derived from conjugial love as offspring from their parent, dealt with in 3021; and from the meaning of 'the hollow' or socket or cavity of it - that is to say, of the thigh - as the place where the joining together exists, and here therefore where celestial-spiritual good is joined to natural good meant by 'Jacob'. But no one can be told anything about that conjunction unless he knows first of all what celestial-spiritual good, meant by 'Israel', is, and what natural good, meant by 'Jacob', is. It will be told below at verse 28 where Jacob, who at that point is named Israel, is the subject and also further on where Jacob's descendants are the subject.

10074. 'And the two kidneys and the fat that is on them' means the more internal, purified truth of the natural man and its good. This is clear from the meaning of 'the kidneys' as the more internal truth of the external or natural man; and from the meaning of 'the fat that is on them' as its good, dealt with above in 10032. The reason why purified truth is what is meant by 'the kidneys' is that the kidneys are organs purifying the blood, 10032, and 'the blood' means truth, 9393, 10026.