Apocalypse Revealed＃362
362. In this list of the tribes of Israel, no mention is made of Dan or Ephraim. The reason is that Dan was the last of the tribes, 1 and its tribe dwelled in the most remote part of the land of Canaan. Thus it could not symbolize anything in the New Heaven or in the Lord's New Church, where there would be only celestial and spiritual people. Therefore Manasseh is substituted for Dan. That Joseph is substituted for Ephraim may be seen in no. 360 above.
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1. I.e., the last to be allotted an inheritance (land) in Israel (Joshua 19:40-49
