4376. 'And I will go beside you' means that they are to be joined together. This is clear from the meaning of 'going beside you' as the linking of one to another, and so the meaning here is that they - good and truths - are to be joined together.

'A handmaid', as mentioned in Genesis 33:2, signifies the affection of sciences and knowledges and means serviceable to the conjunction of the external and internal self.

In Genesis 33:7, this signifies knowledge of external things derived from the world, which are the most common or general of all. This also signifies the affection of rational and scientific things.

In Genesis 30:3, this signifies the affirming medium of conjoining inner truths with natural or external truths.

(Odkazy: Arcana Coelestia 2567, 2657, Genesis 2)