4498. 'Dinah's brothers' means the truths and goods of that Church. This is clear from the meaning of 'brothers' as truths and goods, or faith and charity, dealt with in 367, 3303, 3803, 3815, 4121, 4191, 4267, and from the representation of 'Dinah' as the affection for truth, and therefore the Church, dealt with in 3963, 3964, 44227.

4267. 'And he commanded the first, saying, When Esau my brother meets you and asks you, saying, To whom do you belong; and where are you going; and whose are these in front of you? then you shall say, They belong to your servant Jacob; it is a gift sent to my lord Esau; and behold, he also is behind us' means submission. This likewise is clear from the internal sense of individual words, from which this general meaning emerges. Submission and what goes with submission is clearly the meaning, for Jacob commanded his servants to call his brother 'lord' and himself 'servant', and to say that the gift was being sent as if to a lord from his servant. It has been shown many times that in relation to each other good is 'lord' and truth 'servant', and also that they are nevertheless called 'brothers'. They are called 'brothers' because when good and truth have been joined together, good manifests itself within truth as in an image, and after that they act conjointly to bring about the effect. But good is called 'lord' and truth 'servant' before they have been joined together, the more so when there is argument over which one has priority over the other.