Arcana Coelestia 8641. The subject treated of in the internal sense in this chapter is truths in successive order from the First to the last, and that they are set in order by good Divine. Truth in the first degree is represented by Moses; the truths derived therefrom in successive order are represented by the princes of thousands, of hundreds, of fifties, and of tens. And good Divine, by which the setting in order is effected, is represented by Jethro, Moses‘ father-in-law.

8640. All this goes to show what the life of a regenerate person is like, that it is a life of faith, and also that it cannot be imparted to a person until he has entered a state in which he can acknowledge the truths of faith, and to the extent that he acknowledges them can intend them.