4589. 'For this also is a son for you' means spiritual truth. This is clear from the meaning of 'a son' as truth, dealt with in 489, 491, 533, 1147, 2623, 3373, in this case spiritual truth since Benjamin is the son referred to here, who represents the spiritual of the celestial.

491. The same things are meant by 'sons and daughters' in verses 4, 7, 10, 13, 16, 19, 26, 30, of this chapter, but the character of a Church determines that of its 'sons and daughters', or goods and truths. Here they are truths and goods that men perceived most clearly, for they have regard to the Most Ancient Church, the head and forefather of all other Churches that followed after it.