6282. 'May he bless the boys' means, May he make it possible for them to have truth and goodness. This is clear from the meaning of 'blessing' as endowing with truth and goodness, for in the spiritual sense 'a blessing' does not imply anything else, 1420, 1422, 4981; and from the representation of Ephraim and Manasseh, to whom 'the boys' refers here, as the Church's understanding and the Church's will, to which truth and good were to be imparted, truth to its understanding and good to its will.

In Genesis 14:23, this signifies the lowest and most insignificant falsity. (Arcana Coelestia 1748)

In Joshua 2:18, 21, this signifies the truth of the literal sense of the Word. (Apocalypse Explained 1042[6])