6536. Verses 10-11. And they came to the threshing-floor Atad, which is in the passage of the Jordan, and they wailed there a very great and grievous wailing; and he made a mourning for his father seven days. And the inhabitant of the land, the Canaanite, saw the mourning in the threshing-floor Atad, and they said, This is a grievous mourning to the Egyptians; wherefore they called the name of it Abel-mizraim, which is in the passage of the Jordan. “And they came to the threshing-floor Atad,” signifies the first state; “which is in the passage of the Jordan,” signifies which is a state of initiation into the knowledges of good and truth; “and they wailed there a very great and grievous wailing,” signifies grief; “and he made a mourning for his father seven days,” signifies the end of the grief; “and the inhabitant of the land, the Canaanite, saw the grievous mourning in the threshing-floor Atad,” signifies a perception of grief by the good of the church; “and they said, This is a grievous mourning to the Egyptians,” signifies that memory-knowledges have grief before they are initiated into the truths of the church; “wherefore they called the name of it Abel-mizraim,” signifies the quality of the grief.

5295. And let them heap up corn. That this signifies every good of truth at the same time, is evident from the signification of “heaping up,” as being to gather and at the same time preserve; and from the signification of “corn,” as being the good of the natural (see n. 3580), here the good of truth that is in the natural. The good of truth is truth in the will and in act. That “corn” signifies good is because a “field” in the spiritual sense is the church; and hence whatever belongs to a field, such as seed, sowing, harvest, crop, corn, and also the head or ear of corn, and in particular wheat, barley, and other kinds of grain, denote such things as are of the church; and all the things of the church bear relation to good and truth.