7563. 'Caused his servants and his livestock to flee to the houses' means that they were stored away and placed in safe keeping interiorly. This is clear from the meaning of 'servants' as the things in the natural mind, as immediately above in 7562; from the meaning of 'livestock' as truth and good, also dealt with above, in 7556; and from the meaning of 'the houses' as the things present inwardly in a person, where goodness and truth from the Lord are stored away and placed in safe keeping, dealt with in 7560. From this it is evident that 'he caused his servants and his livestock to flee to the houses' means that the truths and forms of good which are in the natural mind, that is to say, the things which are the Lord's, have been gathered and have been stored away and placed in safe keeping interiorly.

7556. 'And now send, assemble your livestock' means that the truth of good should be gathered. This is clear from the meaning of 'assembling' as gathering; and from the meaning of 'livestock' as the good of truth, and also the truth of good, dealt with in 6016, 6045. What the truth of good and the good of truth are, see 2063, 3295, 3332, 3669, 3688, 3882, 4337, 4353, 4390, 5526, 5733. The subject in this and the next two verses is the goodness and truth which the Lord places in safe keeping even within the evil. For goodness and truth which have not been linked to evils and falsities are not laid waste but are stored away interiorly by the Lord and at a later time brought out for use. The goodness and truth placed in safe keeping within a person by the Lord are meant in the Word by 'the remnant', regarding which, see 468, 530, 560, 561, 576, 661, 798, 1738, 1906, 2284, 5135, 5342, 5344, 5897-5899, 6156.