Cities of the mountain and cities of the plain (Jeremiah 33:13) signify doctrines of charity and faith.

(Odkazy: Arcana Coelestia 2418)

6088. Verses 7-10 And Joseph caused Jacob his father to come and placed him before Pharaoh; and Jacob blessed Pharaoh. And Pharaoh said to Jacob, How many are the days of the years of your life? And Jacob said to Pharaoh, The days of the years of my sojournings are a hundred and thirty years; few and evil have been the days of the years of my life, and they have not attained to the days of the years of the life of my fathers, in the days of their sojournings. And Jacob blessed Pharaoh, and went out from before Pharaoh.

'And Joseph caused Jacob his father to come means the presence of general truth from the internal. 'And placed him before Pharaoh' means an introduction into factual knowledge as a general whole. 'And Jacob blessed Pharaoh' means a heartfelt desire for a joining together and resulting fruitfulness. 'And Pharaoh said to Jacob' means perception in the natural where factual knowledge resides, regarding the Church's truth in general. 'How many are the days of the years of your life?' means regarding the state of life of the natural from the spiritual. 'And Jacob said to Pharaoh' means the reply. 'The days of the years of my hundred and thirty years' means its state and essential nature. '[Few] and evil have been the days of the years of my life' means that the state of life of the natural has been full of temptations. 'And they have not attained to the days of the years of the life of my fathers' means that it did not come means up to the state of life of those that went before. 'In the days of their sojournings' means so far as their state of life was concerned. 'And Jacob blessed Pharaoh' means, as before, a heartfelt desire for a joining together and resulting fruitfulness. 'And went out from before Pharaoh' means a temporary separation.