Youths" or "Young men" generally represent intelligence or the understanding of truth.

(References: Apocalypse Explained 386; Apocalypse Revealed 620 [3]; Arcana Coelestia 5037 [3], 7668, 7724, 9390; The Apocalypse Explained 863 [2-6])

6252. 'My sons are they, whom God has given me here' means that they come from the internal in the natural. This is clear from the representation of Joseph, whose 'sons' they were, as the internal, dealt with in 6177, 6224; and from the meaning of the land of Egypt, to which 'here' refers, as the natural mind, dealt with in 5276, 5278, 5280, 5288, 5301, thus the natural.