'Pharaoh,' in Genesis 40, represents the new natural self. 'Pharaoh' and 'the Egyptians' in the Word, signify the sensory and scientific principles. 'Let Pharaoh live,' as in Genesis 42:16, is a phrase that is employed to say something emphatically, thus to state a certainty. 'Pharaoh and his army' signify people who are in falsities from evil. 'Pharaoh' signifies false ideas infesting the truth of the church. It also signifies scientific ideas, or the natural principle in general.

(Referenser: Arcana Coelestia 1487, Arcana Coelestia 5192; Exodus 16)

6010. 'And Jacob rose up' means an enlightening of natural truth. This is clear from the meaning of 'rising up' as a raising up into a state of light, thus an enlightening, dealt with in 4881; and from the representation of 'Jacob' as natural truth, dealt with above in 6001.