In Genesis 42:35, 1 Samuel 25:29, and Matthew 13:30, this signifies the setting in order of truths for use or of falsities for destruction. (Arcana Coelestia 5530)

(Referenser: Genesis 3, 42, 42:3)

5548. 'And he, he alone, is left' means that this one now exists in place of the internal. This becomes clear from the consideration that because the internal, represented by 'Joseph', was not present and he alone [Benjamin] was born from the same mother, he was now one and the same as Joseph. For 'Joseph' and 'Benjamin' both represent the internal, while 'the remaining ten sons of Jacob' represent the external, 5469.

5469. 'Assuredly we are guilty concerning our brother' means that they were blameworthy because they had alienated the internal by their non-acceptance of good. This is clear from the meaning of 'being guilty' as being blameworthy and subject to the imputation [of sin] because good and truth have been cast aside, dealt with in 3400; and from the representation of Joseph, 'their brother' concerning whom they were guilty, as the internal which they had cast aside or alienated. For Joseph and Benjamin represent the internal aspect of the Church, while the remaining ten sons of Jacob represent its external aspect - 'Rachel', from whom Joseph and Benjamin were born, being the affection for interior truth, and 'Leah' the affection for exterior truth, 3758, 3782, 3793, 3819.

[2] In this chapter 'Joseph' represents the celestial of the spiritual or truth from the Divine, which is the internal; 'Benjamin' represents the spiritual of the celestial, which is the intermediary going forth from the internal; and the remaining 'ten sons of Jacob' represent the truths known to the external Church and so truths that are present in the natural, as stated many times above. This chapter also deals with the joining of the internal aspect of the Church to its external aspect, corporately and in every specific part; for each person individually must be a Church if he is to form part of the Church as a corporate whole. But in the highest sense the chapter deals with the way in which the Lord united the Internal to the External within His Human so as to make this Divine.