3617. 'Why should I be bereft of you both in one day?' means that otherwise there would be no conjunction. This is clear from the fact that if those events that are represented in the internal sense in what follows below by Jacob's residing with Laban had not taken place truth could not have been joined to good, and so good could not have been united to truth in the natural, and the rational would consequently have been made bereft of both. For without the joining of truth to good, and the uniting of good to truth in the natural, no regeneration, which in this chapter has been the subject in the relative sense, would take place. This statement also serves as the conclusion to those that precede it.