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Genesis 42:7

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7 And Joseph saw his brethren, and he knew them, but made himself strange to them, and spoke roughly to them; and he said to them, Whence come ye? And they said, From the land of Canaan to buy food.

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Arcana Coelestia # 5537

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5537. 'Joseph is not' means that the internal does not exist. This is clear from the representation of 'Joseph'; since he represents the celestial of the spiritual, his representation is the internal aspect of the Church, dealt with in 5469.

  
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