6230. And blessed me. That this signifies a prediction about vivification, is evident from the signification of “blessing,” as here being a prediction about vivification; for the blessing was that He would make him fruitful, and multiply him, and make him a company of peoples, and give the land to his seed after him for an eternal possession; all which are predictions about vivification. Not that the posterity of Jacob were vivified; but they who are in the truth of faith and the good of charity; for these are “Jacob” and “Israel” in the internal sense.