6248. Verses 8-9. And Israel saw the sons of Joseph, and said, Whose are these? And Joseph said unto his father, These are my sons, whom God hath given me here. And he said, Take them I pray unto me, and I will bless them. “And Israel saw the sons of Joseph,” signifies a perception about the intellectual and the will of the church; “and said, Whose are these?” signifies and about their origin; “and Joseph said unto his father,” signifies an answer from within; “These are my sons, whom God hath given me here,” signifies that they were from the internal in the natural; “and he said, Take them I pray unto me,” signifies that they should accede to spiritual good; “and I will bless them,” signifies a prediction about good and truth.