Verse 7. And hence there is perception, with those who are in celestial good, that the Lord is to be approached; while at the same time there is the acknowledgement that man is unworthy because of himself he is nothing but evil, and that all good is from the Lord; in order, with regard to the Lord, that the Human may be acknowledged as one with the Divine, and with regard to man, that reconciliation may be established with the Lord, through the remission of evil, both as to the will and understanding, or as to the internal and external man, according to Divine influx.

6234. 'And now your two sons born to you in the land of Egypt' means goodness and truth within the natural that come from the internal. This is clear from the representation of Manasseh and Ephraim, to whom 'two sons' refers here, as the Church's will and the Church's understanding within the natural, which are born from the internal, dealt with above in 6222 (and since good belongs to the will and truth to the understanding, the Church's goodness and truth are meant by those same sons); from the meaning of 'born to you' - to Joseph - as that come from the internal; and from the meaning of 'the land of Egypt' as the natural mind where the Church's factual knowledge resides, dealt with in 5176, 5178, 5280, 5288, 5301, and as the natural, 6147.