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Genesis 48:10

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10 Now the eyes of Israel were dim for age, so that he couldn't see. He brought them near to him; and he kissed them, and embraced them.

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Arcana Coelestia # 6274

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6274. Verses 15-16. And he blessed Joseph, and said, The God before whom my fathers walked, Abraham and Isaac, the God who feedeth me since I am, unto this day, the Angel who redeemeth me from all evil, bless the boys; and let my name be called in them, and the name of my fathers Abraham and Isaac; and let them grow unto a multitude in the midst of the earth. “And he blessed Joseph,” signifies a prediction with respect to the truth of the intellectual and the good of the will having life from the internal; “and said, The God before whom my fathers walked, Abraham and Isaac,” signifies the Divine from which internal good and internal truth had life; “the God who feedeth me,” signifies this Divine vivifying the good of spiritual truth from the natural; “since I am, unto this day,” signifies continually; “the Angel who redeemeth me from all evil,” signifies the Lord’s Divine Human, by which is effected deliverance from hell; “bless the boys,” signifies give them to have truth and good; “and let my name be called in them,” signifies that in them should be the quality of the good of spiritual truth from the natural; “and the name of my fathers Abraham and Isaac,” signifies and the quality of internal good and truth; “and let them grow unto a multitude in the midst of the earth,” signifies extension from the inmost.

  
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Thanks to the Swedenborg Foundation for the permission to use this translation.