9339. Verses 31-33 And I will set your boundary from the Sea Suph even to the Sea of the Philistines, and from the wilderness even to the River; ¹ for I will give the inhabitants of the land into your hand, and you will drive them out ² from before you. You shall not make a covenant with them and their gods. They shall not dwell in your land, lest perhaps they cause you to sin against Me when you serve their gods; for it will be a snare to you.

'And I will set your boundary from the Sea Suph even to the Sea of the Philistines' means the full range of truths from factual ones to interior truths of faith. 'And from the wilderness even to the River' means from delight belonging to the sensory level even to good and truth belonging to the rational level. 'For I will give the inhabitants of the land into your hand' means dominion over evils. 'And you will drive them out from before you' means the removal of them. 'You shall not make a covenant with them and their gods' means no contact with evils and falsities. 'They shall not dwell in your land' means that evils must not exist together with the Church's forms of good. 'Lest perhaps they cause you to sin against Me' means lest evils turn away forms of good from the Lord. 'When you serve their gods' means if worship is kindled by falsities. 'For it will be a snare to you' means owing to evils that are enticing and deceptive.

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6554. 'And all who went up with him to bury his father' means all that contributes to regeneration. This is clear from the meaning of 'burying' as regeneration and resurrection, dealt with in 2916, 2917, 4621, 6516, and as the restoration to life and establishment of the Church, 5551, 6516. All that contributes to it is meant by 'all who went up with him', for they consisted of the whole house of Joseph, also his father's house, as well as the elders of Pharaoh's house and the elders of the land of Egypt. 'Joseph's house' means things constituting the celestial of the spiritual, 6526; 'his father's house' all the things that belong to spiritual good, 6528; 'the elders of Pharaoh's house' those that accord with good, 6524; and 'the elders of the land of Egypt' those that accord with truth, 6525. From all this it is evident that 'all who went up with him to bury' means all that contributes to regeneration. The reason why 'burying' means regeneration as well as resurrection, and also the restoration to life and establishment of the Church, is that these operations which are meant are similar to one another in what they entail; for regeneration is resurrection, in that when a person is being regenerated he is being turned from one who is dead into one who is alive, thus is rising again. Similarly with the restoration to life and establishment of the Church with a person, for this is effected through regeneration, thus through resurrection from death to life.