2659. Verse 11 And the matter was deeply distressing to Abraham ¹ because of his son.

'The matter was deeply distressing to Abraham' means the Lord's state at first when He thought about that rational being separated from Himself. 'Because of his son' means for the reason that He delighted in it.

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1224. From these considerations it is clear what these names mean in the internal sense, namely that the Ancient Church, which was an internal Church, was endowed with wisdom, intelligence, knowledge, and cognitions of truth and good. Such things are contained in the internal sense even though merely names occur from which nothing is seen in the literal sense, apart from these being just so many origins, or fathers of nations, and so nothing of a doctrinal nature is seen, still less anything spiritual and celestial. The same applies in the Prophets where lists of names are sometimes given which in the internal sense mean real things following one after another in a lovely order.