Phares und Zarah', wie in 1. Mose 38:28, 30, stehen für den Streit um den Vorrang des Glaubens und der Nächstenliebe.

(Verweise: Himmlischen Geheimnissen 3325, 4923, 4927-4928, 1 Mose 38:29-30)

5192. 'Pharaoh' is the natural in general which has now become inactive, leaving everything to the celestial of the spiritual, which is 'Joseph'. The seven years of the abundance of corn in the land of Egypt are the factual knowledge to which good from the celestial of the spiritual can be attached, while the seven years of famine are subsequent states when no good is present within factual knowledge except that coming from the Divine celestial of the spiritual, which is received from the Lord's Divine Human. A detailed explanation of this is given in what follows below.