Verse 22. And this induces in them a more profound degree of humiliation, and the acknowledgement that the Lord governs man by Divine Truth operating first in his spiritual degree, which shall afterwards freely manifest itself in his natural degree; and that, therefore, although evil, in the temptation, appears to prevail, in reality it is the natural man which appears to be in aversion from the Lord.

5908. 'God has established me as lord for all Egypt' means that it sets in order every single thing in the natural. This is clear from the meaning of 'being established as lord' as setting in order, as above in 5903, 5904; and from the meaning of 'all Egypt' as factual knowledge in the natural, and so every single thing there. For factual knowledge is what the natural consists of; and 'Egypt', as shown many times already, means factual knowledge.