4241. The field of Edom. That this signifies the derivative truth (that is, truth from good) is evident from the signification of the “field of Edom,” as being the Lord’s Divine natural as to good, with which are conjoined the doctrinal things of truth, or truths (see n. 3302, 3322). The “derivative truths,” or those which are from good, are distinct from the truths from which is good. The truths from which is good are those with which man imbues himself before regeneration; but the truths which are from good are those with which he imbues himself after regeneration, for after regeneration truths proceed from good, because the man then perceives and knows from good that they are true. Such truth, thus the truth of good, is what is signified by the “field of Edom;” as also in the passage cited above from the book of Judges: “O Jehovah, when Thou wentest forth out of Seir, when thou marchedst out of the field of Edom” (Judg. 5:4).