4363. Verses 8-11 And he said, What do you mean by all this camp which I met? And he said, To find favour in the eyes of my lord. And Esau said, I have much, my brother; let what is yours be yours. And Jacob said, No, I beg of you; if now I have found favour in your eyes, then take my gift from my hand; inasmuch as I have seen your face, as though seeing the face of God, and you have accepted me. Take now my blessing which is brought to you, because God has graciously bestowed much on me, and because I have everything. And he urged him, and he took it.

'He said, What do you mean by all this camp which I met?' means the specific things which came from the good of truth. 'And he said, To find favour in the eyes of my lord' means an introduction that went favourably. 'And Esau said, I have much, my brother; let what is yours be yours' means a tacit acceptance, in order that in this way He might instill the affection for good that develops out of truth. 'And Jacob said, No, I beg of you' means the birth of that affection. 'If now I have found favour in your eyes, then take my gift from my hand' means the reciprocation of that affection, in order that it might be instilled. 'Inasmuch as I have seen your face, as though seeing the face of God, and you have accepted me' means the affection itself within that perception by which it was instilled reciprocally. 'Take now my blessing which is brought to you' means the Divine goods and truths which were to become linked to Divine Natural Good. 'Because God has graciously bestowed much on me' means conferred by Providence. 'And because I have everything' means his spiritual riches. 'And he urged him, and he took it' means that that affection originating in the good of truth was instilled by means of affection inspired by Divine Good.

Most of the time, falling means a lowering in spiritual state, from one closer to the Lord to one further. But, as with other common verbs, the meaning of "fall" is highly dependent on context in regular language, and in the spiritual sense as well. People fall on their faces in prayer, fall in battle, fall on others to attack them and fall on each other's necks in greeting. Stars fall from the sky, mountains fall on people, cities fall, and even faces fall. There's a lot of falling, in very different circumstances. When people fall on their faces in prayer -- it shows humility, and an acknowledgement of their own low state and need for the Lord's help. When they fall on each other's necks, it means a communication between the two spiritual states. At the other end of the scale, it illustrates complete spiritual destruction in the fall of a city.