1172. 'Dedan' means cognitions of lower celestial things that exist in ritual forms. This is clear from the following places in the Word: In Ezekiel,

The sons of Dedan were your traders, many islands were the merchandise of your hand; horns of ivory, and ebony they brought as your present. Ezekiel 27:15

'Horns of ivory, and ebony' in the internal sense means the exterior goods that constitute forms of worship or ritual. In the same prophet,

Dedan, she was your trader in chariot-cloaks, ¹ Arabia and all the princes of Kedar Ezekiel 27:20-21.

Here 'chariot-cloaks' ¹ in like manner means exterior goods, or those that constitute forms of ritual. In Jeremiah,

Their wisdom has become rotten. Flee! they have turned themselves away, they have taken themselves down to dwell in the deep, O inhabitants of Dedan. Jeremiah 49:7-8.

Here 'Dedan' in the proper sense stands for forms of ritual which have no internal worship, that is, no worship of the Lord from the heart within them, and which are spoken of as 'turning themselves back, and taking themselves down to dwell in the deep'. From the quotations above it is now clear that 'the sons of Cush' means cognitions of spiritual things, and 'the sons of Raamah' cognitions of celestial.

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In general, spices signify the celestial things of love, and the spiritual things of faith from love. (Arcana Coelestia 925[3])

In Genesis 37:25, this signifies interior natural truths conjoined with good. As the natural is perfected and amended through truths, healing is ascribed to spices of this kind. (Arcana Coelestia 4748)

In Genesis 43:11, this signifies the truth of good of the interior natural. (Arcana Coelestia 5621)

In Exodus 25:6, this signifies interior truths of good. (Arcana Coelestia 9474)

In Exodus 30:34, this signifies worship from truths and their affections. (Arcana Coelestia 10350)

'Spice,' in 1 Kings 10:2, signifies interior truths. 'Spice,' in Ezekiel 27:22, in an internal sense, is charity.

(Odkazy: Arcana Coelestia 1171)