10480. 'For Aaron had caused them to become so undisciplined' means that the external things which they loved were the cause of this. This is clear from the meaning of 'causing to become undisciplined' as turning away from what is internal, and so from what is Divine, as immediately above in 10479; and from the representation of 'Aaron' as the external, also dealt with above, in 10468. Which they loved is meant because those whose interest lies in external things separated from what is internal, love external things alone. The reason why 'causing to become undisciplined' here means turning away and not causing to turn away is that Aaron is not meant in the internal sense by 'Aaron' but the external, and so it is meant without reference to that person, in accord with what has been stated above in 10469.

1447. That 'He said, To your seed will I give this land' means that celestial things would be granted to those who had faith in Him is clear from the meaning of 'land' and from the meaning of 'land'. That 'seed' means faith in the Lord has been shown already in 255, 256, and that 'land' means celestial things has also been shown above at verse 1 of this chapter, and in 620, 636, 662, 1066. In the sense of the fetter 'the seed of Abram' is used to mean descendants through Jacob, and 'land' the land of Canaan itself which was to be given to them as a possession, for the reason that they might represent the celestial and spiritual things of the Lord's kingdom and Church and that among them a representative Church might be established, and because the Lord was to be born in that land. But in the internal sense nothing else is meant by 'seed' then faith in the Lord, and by 'land' nothing else than celestial things, and here in particular that celestial things were to be granted to those who had faith in Him. What is meant by having faith in the Lord has been stated many times already.