6521. Verses 7-9 And Joseph went up to bury his father, and there went up with him all Pharaoh's servants, the elders of his house, and all the elders of the land of Egypt, and the whole house of Joseph, and his brothers, and his father's house; only their young children, and their flocks, and their herds they left behind in the land of Goshen. And there went up with him both chariots and horsemen; and it was an extremely large army. ¹

'And Joseph went up to bury his father' means the steps taken by the internal to re-establish the Church. 'And there went up with him all Pharaoh's servants' means that it had attached to itself the factual knowledge belonging to the natural. 'The elders of his house' means the things that would accord with good. 'And all the elders of the land of Egypt' means the things that would accord with truth. 'And the whole house of Joseph' means aspects of the celestial of the spiritual. 'And his brothers' means the truths coming forth from this. 'And his father's house' means spiritual good. 'Only their young children' means innocence. 'And their flocks' means charity. 'And their herds' means the exercising of charity. 'They left behind in the land of Goshen' means that those things were in the inmost part of the Church's factual knowledge. 'And there went up with him both chariots' means matters of doctrine. 'And horsemen' means intellectual concepts. 'And it was an extremely large army' means truths and forms of good banded together.

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In general, digging in the Bible means applying your own mind, your own faculties to find or create spiritual things. This is reflected in our everyday language; we often speak of investigators “digging for the truth.” In most cases, the idea of digging is connected with wells, and to dig a well means to investigate the Lord’s Word and draw ideas from it. In a more negative sense, a pit – which is like a well but with no water – represents falsity, so to dig a pit represents using your intellect to fabricate falsities. Finally, there is the idea of digging through walls in order to steal from others, which represents doing evil in a cunning and concealed way, invading someone’s life and attacking their desires for good and concepts of truth.

In Genesis 26:18, to dig signifies to open.